Countries
Ukraine
  
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Somalia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Middle East
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Yemen
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
  
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.
  
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Afar and Oromo Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Somali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Hello
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Sidee tahay ?
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Habeenka Good
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Evening Good
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
galab wanaagsan
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Subax wanaagsan
  
Please
будь ласк
  
Fadlan
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
sorry
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
caraysiiyo
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Waan ku jeclahay
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
iga raali ahow
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Northern Somali
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Gabon, Standard Somali
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Benaadir
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Af-Ashraaf
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Standard Somali
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
13.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
8.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
af Soomaali
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
somali
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Somali
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Somalis
  
Origin
1561
  
19th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Cushitic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Somali
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Somali Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
so
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
som
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
som
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
som
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
soma1255
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available