Countries
Ukraine
Zimbabwe
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
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Latin
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
Dialect 2
Volynian
Karanga
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
southern Zimbabwe
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Benue-Congo
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Standard Shona
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
ukra1253
core1255
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
99-AUT-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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Ukrainian and Shona 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 Ukrainian and Shona greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Shona language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Shona word for "Thank You" is Waita zvako. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Shona Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Shona Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Shona difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Shona 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 Ukrainian and Shona are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Shona, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Shona time required is 30 weeks.