Countries
Zimbabwe
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
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
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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
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Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Karanga
Olonets
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Olonets
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Novgorod
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Novgorod
Native Name
chiShona
Русский
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Russki
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Russians
Origin
20th century
1000 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
core1255
russ1263
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional, Synthetic
Shona and Russian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Shona and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Shona and Russian language. Shona word for "Hello" is Mhoro or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Shona Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Shona vs Russian Difficulty
The Shona vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Shona Alphabets and Russian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Shona and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Shona and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Shona is 30 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.