Countries
Ukraine
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
National Language
Ukraine
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Habari
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Asante
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Habari gani?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Habari za asubuhi
Please
будь ласк
tafadhali
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
pole
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
bye
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
nakupenda
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Samahani
Dialect 1
Podillian
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Zanzibar island
Dialect 2
Volynian
Kimrima
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Dar es Salaam
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Kilwa
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Not Available
Alternative Names
Not Available
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
ukrainien
swahili
German Name
Ukrainisch
Swahili
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Swahili people or Waswahili
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Benue-Congo
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Swahili
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
ukra1253
swah1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
99-AUS-m
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
Ukrainian and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Swahili language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Swahili word for "Thank You" is Asante. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Swahili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Swahili Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Swahili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Swahili 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 Swahili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Swahili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Swahili time required is 36 weeks.