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Ukrainian vs Swahili


Swahili vs Ukrainian


Countries

Countries
Ukraine  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
4  
11

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.
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Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Arabic Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
33  
15
24  
6

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
5  
2

How Many Consonants
22  
12
21  
11

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
36 weeks  
10

Greetings

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  

Dialects

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  

Dialect 3
Steppe  
Kimgao  

Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine  
Kilwa  

Total No. Of Dialects
15  
14
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
39.00 million  
32
150.00 million  
13

Speaking Population
0.46 %  
30
Not Available  

Native Speakers
39.00 million  
25
15.00 million  
40

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  

History

Origin
1561  
6th century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Niger-Congo Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Benue-Congo  

Branch
Eastern  
Bantu  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian  
Swahili  

Language Position
26  
22
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual, Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
uk  
sw  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ukr  
swa  

ISO 639 2/B
ukr  
swa  

ISO 639 3
ukr  
swa  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
ukra1253  
swah1254  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq  
99-AUS-m  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Not Available  

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Ukrainian and Swahili Language History

Comparison of Ukrainian vs Swahili language history gives us differences between origin of Ukrainian and Swahili language. History of Ukrainian language states that this language originated in 1561 whereas history of Swahili language states that this language originated in 6th century. 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 Swahili Language History.

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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.

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