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
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Xhosa Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3357
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
67
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2250
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Sawubona
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
unjani
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
okuhle ekuseni
Please
будь ласк
Ngiyacela
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
bye
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Podillian
Qwabe
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Ndebele
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
154
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 %0.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
ukrainien
zoulou
German Name
Ukrainisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Zulu people
Origin
1561
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Eastern
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Deep Zulu
Language Position
2687
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
zul
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
zul
ISO 639 3
ukr
zul
ISO 639 6
ukr
zul
Glottocode
ukra1253
zulu1248
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
99-AUT-fg
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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