Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
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
Somalia
  
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
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  
- 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
Somali Language
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Oromo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
akkam
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Galatoomi
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
Maaloo
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
naa dhiisi
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
Nagayattii!
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Borana
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
19
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Orma
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Wata
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
24.00 million
  
33
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
Afaan Oromo
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
  
Not Available
  
French Name
galla
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Galla-Sprache
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Oromos
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
16
  
1561
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Cushitic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
om
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
orm
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
orm
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
orm
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1736
  
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
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Oromo 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 Oromo and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Oromo and Ukrainian language. Oromo word for "Hello" is akkam or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Oromo Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Oromo vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Oromo vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Oromo 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 Oromo and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Oromo and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Oromo is Not Available while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.