Countries
Ukraine
European Union, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Poland
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
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.
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3332
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2223
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
cześć
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
dziękuję
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Jak się masz?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
dobranoc
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
dobry wieczór
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
dzień dobry
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Dzień dobry
Please
будь ласк
proszę
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Przepraszam
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
do widzenia
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
kocham Cię
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
przepraszam
Dialect 1
Podillian
Kashubian
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Poland
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.00108,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Masovian
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Poland
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.0045,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Silesian
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Czech Republic, Poland
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.00510,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1534
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.46 %0.61 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
39.00 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Polski
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Polnisch, Polski
French Name
ukrainien
polonais
German Name
Ukrainisch
Polnisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ˈpɔlski]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Poles
Origin
1561
1270
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Eastern
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Polish
Language Position
2624
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
pl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
pol
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
pol
ISO 639 3
ukr
pol
ISO 639 6
ukr
pols
Glottocode
ukra1253
poli1260
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
53-AAA-cc
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic