Countries
Ukraine
Ethiopia, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Ethiopia
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
Somalia
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.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Somali Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3334
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2224
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
akkam
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Galatoomi
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Nagayattii buli
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Attam bulte/bultan
Please
будь ласк
Maaloo
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
naa dhiisi
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
Nagayattii!
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Sin jaaladha
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Maaloo na dabarsi
Dialect 1
Podillian
Borana
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Ethiopia, Kenya
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Orma
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Kenya
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.0066,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Wata
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Kenya
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0013,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1517
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %0.36 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million24.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
30.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Afaan Oromo
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Afaan Oromoo
French Name
ukrainien
galla
German Name
Ukrainisch
Galla-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ɔrɔmɔ]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Oromos
Origin
1561
16
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Cushitic
Branch
Eastern
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Afaan Oromo
Language Position
2691
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Oromo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
uk
om
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
orm
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
orm
ISO 639 3
ukr
orm
ISO 639 6
ukr
orm
Glottocode
ukra1253
nucl1736
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
No data available
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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