Countries
Japan
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Europe
Minority Language
Palau
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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
Korean Language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1422
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
будь ласк
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Podillian
Where They Speak
Kagawa
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Volynian
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Steppe
Where They Speak
kansai
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
3115
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
128.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.90 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
日本語
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
japonais
ukrainien
German Name
Japanisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Ukrainians
Origin
1185
1561
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Japanese
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
826
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
ukr
ISO 639 3
jpn
ukr
ISO 639 6
jpn
ukr
Glottocode
nucl1643
ukra1253
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic