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 Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Russian and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Ukrainian language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Russian vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Ukrainian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Russian and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.