Countries
Ukraine
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Malta
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
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
National Council for the Maltese 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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2224
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
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)
Ħello
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Grazzi
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Kif int?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
будь ласк
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Skużani!
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
Ċaw
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Podillian
Qormi
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Malta
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Malta
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Not Present
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
-
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
152
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.46 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Malti
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Malti
French Name
ukrainien
maltais
German Name
Ukrainisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Maltese
Origin
1561
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Semitic
Branch
Eastern
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Maltese
Language Position
2625
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
mlt
ISO 639 3
ukr
mlt
ISO 639 6
ukr
mlt
Glottocode
ukra1253
malt1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic