×

Shona
Shona

Russian
Russian



ADD
Compare
X
Shona
X
Russian

Shona and Russian

Add ⊕

Countries

Countries

Zimbabwe
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

14
0 46
👆🏻

National Language

Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Russia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

-
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Interesting Facts

  • Shona language is tonal language.
  • The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.

Similar To

Kalanga and Nambya Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3733
18 247
👆🏻

Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
👆🏻

How Many Consonants

4621
9 60
👆🏻

Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

46
2 12
👆🏻

Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
👆🏻

Greetings

Hello

Mhoro
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

Waita zvako
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

Wakadini zvako?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

Urare zvakanaka
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

Manheru
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

Masikati
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

Mangwanani
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

Ndinokumbirawo
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

Ndineurombo
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

Ndinokuda
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

Pamusoro
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Hwesa
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

Zimbabwe
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
👆🏻

Dialect 2

Karanga
Olonets

Where They Speak

southern Zimbabwe
Olonets

How Many People Speak

1,100,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
👆🏻

Dialect 3

Zezuru
Novgorod

Where They Speak

central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Novgorod

How Many People Speak

16.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
👆🏻

Total No. Of Dialects

413
0 188
👆🏻

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million276.00 million
0 1200
👆🏻

Speaking Population

0.13 %2.33 %
0 89
👆🏻

Native Speakers

8.30 million166.00 million
0 873
👆🏻

Second Language Speakers

16.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
👆🏻

Native Name

chiShona
Русский

Alternative Names

Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Russki

French Name

shona
russe

German Name

Schona-Sprache
Russisch

Pronunciation

[ʃoːna]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Shona people
Russians

History

Origin

20th century
1000 AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Slavic

Branch

Bantu
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Shona and Middle Shona
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Standard Shona
Standard Russian

Language Position

1077
1 120
👆🏻

Signed Forms

Signed Shona
Signed Russian

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sn
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sna
rus

ISO 639 2/B

sna
rus

ISO 639 3

sna
rus

ISO 639 6

sna
rus

Glottocode

core1255
russ1263

Linguasphere

99-AUT-a
53-AAA-ea

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Shona and Russian Alphabets

Shona and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Shona and Russian. In Shona Alphabets there are 37 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Shona and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Shona and Russian languages. The Shona phonology consist Shona vowels and Shona consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Shona greetings vs Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Shona and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Shona and Russian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Shona and Russian dialects. Various dialects of Shona and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Shona are spoken in different Shona Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Shona vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Shona dialects include: Hwesa, Karanga. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Shona and Russian Speaking population

Shona and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Shona and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Shona and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Shona and Russian on Shona vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Shona and Russian Language Codes

Shona and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Shona and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.