Countries
Ukraine
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
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
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
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.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Czech Language
Derived From
-
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3346
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
615
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2238
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)
Ahoj
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Dobré ráno
Please
будь ласк
Prosím
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Pardón!
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
Dovidenia
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Podillian
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
154
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million5.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million5.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
30.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
ukrainien
slovaque
German Name
Ukrainisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Slovaks
Origin
1561
6th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Eastern
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Slovak
Language Position
2627
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
slk
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
slo
ISO 639 3
ukr
slk
ISO 639 6
ukr
slk
Glottocode
ukra1253
slov1269
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
53-AAA-db
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic