Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Ukraine
Second Language
Roman Empire
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
- 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
Armenian
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Latin
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1722
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
будь ласк
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
αντίο (antío)
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
Podillian
Where They Speak
Greece
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
2,800.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Griko
Volynian
Where They Speak
Italy
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
50,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mariupol
Steppe
Where They Speak
Ukraine
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2515
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.18 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
13.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ελληνικά
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
ukrainien
German Name
Neugriechisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Ukrainians
Origin
1500 BC
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Hellenic
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
7426
1
120
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Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
el
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ell
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
gre
ukr
ISO 639 3
ell
ukr
ISO 639 6
ells
ukr
Glottocode
gree1276
ukra1253
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic