Countries
Ukraine
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Lithuania
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
Poland
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3332
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2220
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Sveiki
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Ačiū
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Labanakt
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Laba diena
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Labas rytas
Please
будь ласк
Prašom
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
atsiprašau
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
Ate
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Podillian
Samogitian
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Curonian
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1510
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.46 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
39.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
ukrainien
lituanien
German Name
Ukrainisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Lithuanians
Origin
1561
c. 1503
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Eastern
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Lithuanian
Language Position
2644
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
lit
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
lit
ISO 639 3
ukr
lit
ISO 639 6
ukr
lit
Glottocode
ukra1253
lith1251
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic