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
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2243
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Molo
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Unjani
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Molo
Please
будь ласк
Ndicela
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Podillian
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
South Africa
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Thembu
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
South Africa
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Hlubi
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
South Africa
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
159
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
30.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
ukrainien
xhosa
German Name
Ukrainisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
1561
16th 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
isiXhosa
Language Position
2621
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
xho
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
xho
ISO 639 3
ukr
xho
ISO 639 6
ukr
xho
Glottocode
ukra1253
xhos1239
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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