Countries
Ukraine
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Palau
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3399
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2214
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Kana
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
будь ласк
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Podillian
Sanuki
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Hakata
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Kansai
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
kansai
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1531
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %1.90 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million128.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
30.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
日本語
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Nihongo
French Name
ukrainien
japonais
German Name
Ukrainisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
1561
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Japanese
Language Position
268
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
jpn
ISO 639 3
ukr
jpn
ISO 639 6
ukr
jpn
Glottocode
ukra1253
nucl1643
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic