Countries
Ukraine
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Yemen
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
-
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2221
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Hello
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Subax wanaagsan
Please
будь ласк
Fadlan
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
sorry
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
caraysiiyo
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Podillian
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
153
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.46 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
39.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
ukrainien
somali
German Name
Ukrainisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Somalis
Origin
1561
19th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Cushitic
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Somali
Language Position
2683
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
som
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
som
ISO 639 3
ukr
som
ISO 639 6
ukr
som
Glottocode
ukra1253
soma1255
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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