Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Sweden
Ukraine
Second Language
Finland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
- 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
Norwegian and Danish Language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Old Norse Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1822
9
60
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Scripts
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
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hej
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
tacka dig
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
hur mår du
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
godnatt
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
god kväll
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
god morgon
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
vänligen
будь ласк
Sorry
ledsen
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
hej då
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
jag älskar dig
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Dialects
Podillian
Where They Speak
Gabon
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dialects
Volynian
Where They Speak
Georgia
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Dialects
Steppe
Where They Speak
France
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
7915
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Svenska
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
suédois
ukrainien
German Name
Schwedisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Ukrainians
Origin
13th Century
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Slavic
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Swedish
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
8926
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sv
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swe
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
swe
ukr
ISO 639 3
swe
ukr
ISO 639 6
swe
ukr
Glottocode
swed1254
ukra1253
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
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
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Fusional, Synthetic