Countries
Burma
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
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
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
- 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
Kinyarwanda Language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2133
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1922
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bwakeye
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Urakoze
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Ndagusavye
будь ласк
Sorry
Ndasubiza
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
N’agasaga
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Ndi waramutse
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Ndasaba
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Podillian
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ha
Volynian
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
990,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Shubi
Steppe
Where They Speak
Tanzania
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
153,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
615
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.80 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Rundi, Urundi
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
rundi
ukrainien
German Name
Kirundi
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[kɪˈrʊndi]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Ukrainians
Origin
1500
1561
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
8626
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Kirundi Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
rn
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
run
ukr
ISO 639 3
run
ukr
ISO 639 6
run
ukr
Glottocode
rund1242
ukra1253
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic