Countries
Ukraine
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Middle East
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
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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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2229
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
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Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Silaw
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Sipas
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Şev xweş
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Bayanit bash
Please
будь ласк
Bê zehmet
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Bibûre
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
Be xêr çî
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Podillian
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
153
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
30.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
ukrainien
kurde
German Name
Ukrainisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Kurds
Origin
1561
16th century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Eastern
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Kurdish
Language Position
2614
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
uk
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
kur
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
kur
ISO 639 3
ukr
kur
ISO 639 6
ukr
kur
Glottocode
ukra1253
kurd1259
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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