Countries
Ukraine
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
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Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3337
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2246
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Mhoro
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Waita zvako
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Manheru
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Masikati
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Mangwanani
Please
будь ласк
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Ndineurombo
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
bye
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Podillian
Hwesa
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Karanga
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Zezuru
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
154
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
30.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
ukrainien
shona
German Name
Ukrainisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Shona people
Origin
1561
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Eastern
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Standard Shona
Language Position
26107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
sna
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
sna
ISO 639 3
ukr
sna
ISO 639 6
ukr
sna
Glottocode
ukra1253
core1255
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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