Countries
Nigeria
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
kedụ
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
dalụ
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
ka chi fo
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
Biko
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
Ndo
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
Not Available
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Enuani
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Dialect 2
Ngwa
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
22
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
39.00 million
  
32
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
igbo
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Ibo
  
Not Available
  
French Name
igbo
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Igbo people
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
30th Century BC
  
1561
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Kwa
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ig
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
ibo
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1417
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
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
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Igbo 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 Igbo and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Igbo and Ukrainian language. Igbo word for "Hello" is kedụ or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Igbo Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Igbo vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Igbo vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Igbo 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 Igbo and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Igbo and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Igbo is 52 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.