Countries
Ukraine
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
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Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3324
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2221
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Habari
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Asante
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Habari gani?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Habari za asubuhi
Please
будь ласк
tafadhali
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
pole
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
bye
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
nakupenda
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Samahani
Dialect 1
Podillian
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Zanzibar island
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Kimrima
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Dar es Salaam
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.0075,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Kimgao
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Kilwa
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0075,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1512
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million150.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
39.00 million15.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
30.00 million75.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Kiswahili
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
ukrainien
swahili
German Name
Ukrainisch
Swahili
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[swaˈhili]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
1561
6th 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
Swahili
Language Position
2621
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Swahili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
uk
sw
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
swa
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
swa
ISO 639 3
ukr
swa
ISO 639 6
ukr
swa
Glottocode
ukra1253
swah1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
99-AUS-m
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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