Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Ukraine
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
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Alphabets in
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
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
Dialect 2
Kimrima
Volynian
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Rivne, Volyn
Where They Speak
Kilwa
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
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
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Swahili
Modern Ukrainian
Signed Forms
Swahili Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
Glottocode
swah1254
ukra1253
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional, Synthetic
Swahili and Ukrainian Speaking population
Swahili and Ukrainian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Ukrainian languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Ukrainian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Ukrainian language is 0.46 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Swahili and Ukrainian on Swahili vs Ukrainian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Swahili and Ukrainian Language Codes
Swahili and Ukrainian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swahili and Ukrainian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.