Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Ukraine
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
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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
Dialect 2
Olonets
Volynian
Where They Speak
Olonets
Rivne, Volyn
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Steppe
Where They Speak
Novgorod
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Modern Ukrainian
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
russ1263
ukra1253
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Russian and Ukrainian Speaking population
Russian and Ukrainian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Ukrainian languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Ukrainian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Ukrainian language is 0.46 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Russian and Ukrainian on Russian vs Ukrainian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Russian and Ukrainian Language Codes
Russian and Ukrainian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Ukrainian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.