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
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.10 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
25
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million
  
22
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
  
Origin
17th Century
  
1561
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Western
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 1
af
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
afr
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
afr
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
afr
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
afrs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
afri1274
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
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.