Countries
Ukraine
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Total No. Of Countries
17
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
-
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
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How Many Consonants
229
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
hallo
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Danke
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
guten Tag
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
guten Morgen
Please
будь ласк
bitte
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Verzeihung
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
Tschüs
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Podillian
Swiss German
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Germany
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.00820,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Texas German
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Texas
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.006,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1528
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million229.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.46 %1.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
39.00 million101.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million128.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
ukrainien
allemand
German Name
Ukrainisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Germans
Origin
1561
6th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Germanic
Branch
Eastern
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
269
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
de
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
deu
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
ger
ISO 639 3
ukr
deu
ISO 639 6
ukr
deus
Glottocode
ukra1253
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic