Countries
Ukraine
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Zambia
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
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Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Zulu language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3331
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2218
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks32 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Moni
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Zikomo
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Muli bwanji?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Usiku wabwino
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Madzulo abwino
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Masana abwino
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
M'mawa wabwino
Please
будь ласк
Chonde
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
pepani
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
anatsanzikana
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Ndimakukondani
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Pepani
Dialect 1
Podillian
Kasungu
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Kikamtunda
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Kimaravi
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.001,200,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
155
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million12.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %0.17 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million12.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
30.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Nyanja
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
French Name
ukrainien
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
German Name
Ukrainisch
Nyanja-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ˈtʃewa]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Chewa people
Origin
1561
15th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Eastern
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Chewa
Language Position
2627
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Chewa Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
ny
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
nya
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
nya
ISO 639 3
ukr
nya
ISO 639 6
ukr
nya
Glottocode
ukra1253
nyan1308
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
99-AUS-xaa – xag
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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