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
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Somali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
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
Speaking Population
Not Available
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
ukra1253
soma1255
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
Ukrainian and Somali 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 Somali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Somali language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Somali word for "Thank You" is Waad ku mahadsan tahay. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Somali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Somali Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Somali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Somali 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 Somali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Somali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Somali time required is 52 weeks.