Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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
Not Available
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
  
- 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
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Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
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Alphabets in
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Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Ethiopic
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Selam
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
Dehna dur
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
i'bakwon
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
aznallehu
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
tschao
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
afekirishalehu
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
yiqirta
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Gondar
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Gondar
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Dialect 2
Gojjami
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Showa
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
39.00 million
  
25
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
Not Available
  
Native Name
Not Available
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
Not Available
  
French Name
amharique
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Amharisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Amharas
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
13th century
  
1561
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Ethiopic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ge'ez
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Amharic
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
am
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
amh
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
amh
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
amh
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
amha1245
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Amharic 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 Amharic and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Amharic and Ukrainian language. Amharic word for "Hello" is Selam or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Amharic Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Amharic vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Amharic vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Amharic 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 Amharic and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Amharic and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Amharic is 44 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.