Countries
Ukraine
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Nigeria
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
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Yoruba 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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2217
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 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
e dupe
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
e kaasan
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
e kaaro
Please
будь ласк
Jowo
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
binu
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
bye
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Podillian
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Ede
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1520
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %0.42 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million28.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
30.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
ukrainien
yoruba
German Name
Ukrainisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Yoruba people
Origin
1561
4 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Western Sudanic
Branch
Eastern
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Yorùbá
Language Position
2649
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
yor
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
yor
ISO 639 3
ukr
yor
ISO 639 6
ukr
yor
Glottocode
ukra1253
yoru1245
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-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating