Countries
Ukraine
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Namibia, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Dutch Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Dutch Language
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
Dankie
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Hoe gaan dit
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
goeie nag
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Goeienaand
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Goeie middag
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
goeie more
  
Please
будь ласк
  
asseblief
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
jammer
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Ek het jou lief
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Verskoon my
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Baster Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Namibia
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
19.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
7.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
10.30 million
  
22
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Afrikaans
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Cape Dutch
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
afrikaans
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Afrikaans
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Afrikaners
  
Origin
1561
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Standard Afrikaans
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
af
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
afr
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
afr
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
afr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
afrs
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
afri1274
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
52-ACB-ba
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic
  
Ukrainian and Afrikaans Speaking population
Ukrainian and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Ukrainian and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Ukrainian and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Ukrainian language is 0.46 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Ukrainian and Afrikaans on Ukrainian vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Ukrainian and Afrikaans Language Codes
Ukrainian and Afrikaans language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Ukrainian and Afrikaans Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.