Countries
Zimbabwe
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
-
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3733
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4622
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Mhoro
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Waita zvako
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Manheru
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Masikati
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Mangwanani
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
будь ласк
Sorry
Ndineurombo
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Ndinokuda
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Podillian
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Karanga
Volynian
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
1,100,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Steppe
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
16.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
415
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.30 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
chiShona
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
shona
ukrainien
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Shona people
Ukrainians
Origin
20th century
1561
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
Branch
Bantu
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
10726
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sn
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sna
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
sna
ukr
ISO 639 3
sna
ukr
ISO 639 6
sna
ukr
Glottocode
core1255
ukra1253
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic