Countries
Ukraine
South Africa
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
Not Available
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Not Available
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Volynian
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Not Available
Dialect 3
Steppe
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Namibia
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Not Available
Cape Dutch
French Name
ukrainien
afrikaans
German Name
Ukrainisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Afrikaners
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
afrs
Glottocode
ukra1253
afri1274
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
52-ACB-ba
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic
Ukrainian and Afrikaans 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 Ukrainian and Afrikaans greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Afrikaans language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Afrikaans word for "Thank You" is Dankie. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Afrikaans Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Afrikaans Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Afrikaans difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Afrikaans 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 Ukrainian and Afrikaans are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Afrikaans, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Afrikaans time required is 24 weeks.