Countries
Ukraine
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2213
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Moi
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Kiitos
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Hyvää huomenta
Please
будь ласк
haluta
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Anteeksi
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
Heippa
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Podillian
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Finland
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Rauma
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1521
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Suomi
French Name
ukrainien
finnois
German Name
Ukrainisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
ethnic Finns
Origin
1561
1543
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Eastern
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
standard Finnish
Language Position
2622
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
fin
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
fin
ISO 639 3
ukr
fin
ISO 639 6
ukr
fin
Glottocode
ukra1253
finn1318
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic