Countries
Ukraine
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3332
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
615
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2217
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
hallo
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Dankie
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
goeie nag
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Goeie middag
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
goeie more
Please
будь ласк
asseblief
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
jammer
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
Totsiens
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Podillian
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
-
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
-
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Namibia
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
153
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.46 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
39.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Cape Dutch
French Name
ukrainien
afrikaans
German Name
Ukrainisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Afrikaners
Origin
1561
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Germanic
Branch
Eastern
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
2623
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
afr
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
afr
ISO 639 3
ukr
afr
ISO 639 6
ukr
afrs
Glottocode
ukra1253
afri1274
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic