Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
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
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- 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
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2122
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Habari
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Asante
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Habari gani?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Usiku mwema
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
tafadhali
будь ласк
Sorry
pole
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
nakupenda
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Samahani
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Podillian
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kimrima
Volynian
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kimgao
Steppe
Where They Speak
Kilwa
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1215
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.42 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
75.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kiswahili
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
swahili
ukrainien
German Name
Swahili
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[swaˈhili]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Ukrainians
Origin
6th century
1561
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
Branch
Bantu
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Swahili
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
2126
1
120
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Signed Forms
Swahili Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
sw
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swa
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
swa
ukr
ISO 639 3
swa
ukr
ISO 639 6
swa
ukr
Glottocode
swah1254
ukra1253
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
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