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
Not Available
Alphabets in
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
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
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
Not Available
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Not Available
French Name
swahili
ukrainien
German Name
Swahili
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[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
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
swah1254
ukra1253
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Swahili and Ukrainian 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 Swahili and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swahili and Ukrainian language. Swahili word for "Hello" is Habari or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Swahili Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swahili vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Swahili vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swahili Alphabets and Ukrainian 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 Swahili and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swahili and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swahili is 36 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.