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Ukrainian vs Igbo


Igbo vs Ukrainian


Countries

Countries
Ukraine  
Nigeria  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
1  
14

National Language
Ukraine  
Nigeria  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Africa  

Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia  
Equatorial Guinea  

Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture  

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.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages  
Not Available  

Derived From
Not Available  
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Alphabets

Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
33  
15
36  
18

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
8  
5

How Many Consonants
22  
12
28  
18

Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
52 weeks  
12

Greetings

Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)  
kedụ  

Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)  
dalụ  

How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)  
kedụ ka ịmere  

Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)  
ka chi fo  

Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)  
mgbede ọma  

Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)  
ehihie ọma  

Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)  
ụtụtụ ọma  

Please
будь ласк  
Biko  

Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)  
Ndo  

Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)  
Not Available  

I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya  

Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)  
ngọpụ  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Podillian  
Enuani  

Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia  
Nigeria  

Dialect 2
Volynian  
Ngwa  

Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn  
Nigeria  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,500,000.00  
22

Dialect 3
Steppe  
Not present  

Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine  
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
15  
14
20  
18

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
39.00 million  
32
25.00 million  
40

Speaking Population
0.46 %  
30
Not Available  

Native Speakers
39.00 million  
25
25.00 million  
32

Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)  
igbo  

Alternative Names
Not Available  
Ibo  

French Name
ukrainien  
igbo  

German Name
Ukrainisch  
Ibo-Sprache  

Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]  
[iɡ͡boː]  

Ethnicity
Ukrainians  
Igbo people  

History

Origin
1561  
30th Century BC  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Niger-Congo Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Kwa  

Branch
Eastern  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian  
Standard Igbo  

Language Position
26  
22
57  
99+

Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
uk  
ig  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ukr  
ibo  

ISO 639 2/B
ukr  
ibo  

ISO 639 3
ukr  
ibo  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
ukra1253  
nucl1417  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Agglutinative  

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Ukrainian and Igbo Language History

Comparison of Ukrainian vs Igbo language history gives us differences between origin of Ukrainian and Igbo language. History of Ukrainian language states that this language originated in 1561 whereas history of Igbo language states that this language originated in 30th Century BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Ukrainian and Igbo Language History.

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Ukrainian and Igbo 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 Ukrainian and Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Igbo language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Ukrainian vs Igbo Difficulty

The Ukrainian vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Igbo 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 Ukrainian and Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.

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