Countries
South Africa
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
South Africa
Ukraine
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
-
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5333
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4322
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Unjani
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Molo
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Ndicela
будь ласк
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Podillian
Where They Speak
South Africa
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Thembu
Volynian
Where They Speak
South Africa
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Steppe
Where They Speak
South Africa
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
19.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
915
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
xhosa
ukrainien
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Ukrainians
Origin
16th Century
1561
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
Branch
Bantu
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
2126
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
xho
ukr
ISO 639 3
xho
ukr
ISO 639 6
xho
ukr
Glottocode
xhos1239
ukra1253
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional, Synthetic