Countries
South Africa
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Ukraine
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
- 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
Dutch Language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Dutch Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3233
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
156
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1722
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Dankie
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
goeie nag
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Goeienaand
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
goeie more
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
asseblief
будь ласк
Sorry
jammer
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Totsiens
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Podillian
Where They Speak
-
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Volynian
Where They Speak
-
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Steppe
Where They Speak
Namibia
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
7.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
afrikaans
ukrainien
German Name
Afrikaans
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Ukrainians
Origin
17th Century
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Slavic
Branch
Western
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
2326
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
afr
ukr
ISO 639 3
afr
ukr
ISO 639 6
afrs
ukr
Glottocode
afri1274
ukra1253
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Fusional, Synthetic