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Countries

Countries

Ukraine

Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Ukraine

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia

Regulated By

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language

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.

Similar To

Russian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

33
Rank: 15 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

22
Rank: 12 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille

Writing Direction

-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

Дякую (Dyakuyu)

How Are You?

Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)

Good Night

На добраніч (Na dobranič)

Good Evening

Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)

Good Afternoon

Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)

Good Morning

Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)

Please

будь ласк

Sorry

вибачте (vybachte)

Bye

до побачення (do pobachennya)

I Love You

я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)

Excuse Me

Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Podillian

Where They Speak

North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia

How Many People Speak

42,000,000.00
Rank: 17 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Volynian

Where They Speak

Rivne, Volyn

How Many People Speak

44,000,000.00
Rank: 15 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Steppe

Where They Speak

South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine

How Many People Speak

42,000,000.00
Rank: 14 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

15
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

39.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.46 %
Rank: 32 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

39.00 million
Rank: 25 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

30.00 million
Rank: 26 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

Українська (Ukrajins'ka)

Alternative Names

Ukrayins'ka Mova

French Name

ukrainien

German Name

Ukrainisch

Pronunciation

[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]

Ethnicity

Ukrainians

History

Origin

1561

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic

Branch

Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic, Ukrainian

Standard Forms

Modern Ukrainian

Language Position

26
Rank: 24 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Ukrainian Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

uk

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ukr

ISO 639 2/B

ukr

ISO 639 3

ukr

ISO 639 6

ukr

Glottocode

ukra1253

Linguasphere

53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Ukrainian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Ukrainian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Ukrainian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Ukrainian. Ukrainian phonology gives Ukrainian vowels and Ukrainian consonants. There are vowels and consonants in Ukrainian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Ukrainian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Ukrainian language is given in detail in this section.

All Ukrainian countries

Want to explore all Ukrainian countries? About Ukrainian language serves you with all Ukrainian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Ukrainian as official language are called as Ukrainian countries.

  • Countries that use Ukrainian as their National Language are: .

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Ukrainian as second language are: .

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Learn Ukrainian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Ukrainian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Ukrainian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Ukrainian language.Learn Ukrainian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

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  • Good Morning:
  • Good Evening:
  • Good Afternoon:

All Ukrainian Language Codes

Get to know all Ukrainian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Ukrainian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.