Countries
Ukraine
European Union, Latvia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Latvia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
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
Latvian State Language Center
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 first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2224
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Sveiki
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Paldies
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Labdien
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Labrīt
Please
будь ласк
lūdzu
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Piedodiet!
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Podillian
Livonian
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Latvia
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Latvia
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
High Latvian
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
153
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million1.75 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.46 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
39.00 million1.75 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Lettish
French Name
ukrainien
letton
German Name
Ukrainisch
Lettisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ˈlætviən]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Latvians or Letts
Origin
1561
1530
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Baltic
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Latvian
Language Position
269
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
uk
lv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
lav
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
lav
ISO 639 3
ukr
lav
ISO 639 6
ukr
lav
Glottocode
ukra1253
latv1249
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
54-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic