Countries
South Africa
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Ukraine
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Xhosa Language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5733
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
5022
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sawubona
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
unjani
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Ngiyacela
будь ласк
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Podillian
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Volynian
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Steppe
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
415
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.16 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiZulu
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
zoulou
ukrainien
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
Ukrainians
Origin
19
1561
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
Branch
Beatu
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
8726
1
120
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Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zu
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zul
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
zul
ukr
ISO 639 3
zul
ukr
ISO 639 6
zul
ukr
Glottocode
zulu1248
ukra1253
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
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
-
Fusional, Synthetic