Countries
South Africa
Ukraine
National Language
South Africa
Ukraine
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
- 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
Dutch Language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Dutch Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
hallo
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Dankie
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
goeie nag
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Goeienaand
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
goeie more
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
asseblief
будь ласк
Sorry
jammer
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Not Available
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Podillian
Where They Speak
Not Available
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Volynian
Where They Speak
Not Available
Rivne, Volyn
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Steppe
Where They Speak
Namibia
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Afrikaans
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Not Available
French Name
afrikaans
ukrainien
German Name
Afrikaans
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Ukrainians
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
afrs
Not Available
Glottocode
afri1274
ukra1253
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Fusional, Synthetic
Afrikaans and Ukrainian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Afrikaans and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Ukrainian language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Ukrainian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Afrikaans and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.