Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Ukraine
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2122
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
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
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
будь ласк
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Podillian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
30,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Volynian
Where They Speak
Olonets
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Steppe
Where They Speak
Novgorod
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1315
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.46 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million39.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Russki
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
russe
ukrainien
German Name
Russisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Russians
Ukrainians
Origin
1000 AD
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Eastern
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
726
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
rus
ukr
ISO 639 3
rus
ukr
ISO 639 6
rus
ukr
Glottocode
russ1263
ukra1253
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
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