Countries
Ukraine
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Finland
Speaking Continents
Europe
Antartica, Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
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.
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Norwegian and Danish Language
Derived From
-
Old Norse Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2218
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 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
hej
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
tacka dig
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
hur mår du
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
godnatt
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
god kväll
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
god eftermiddag
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
god morgon
Please
будь ласк
vänligen
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
ledsen
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
hej då
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
jag älskar dig
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
ursäkta mig
Dialect 1
Podillian
Dialects
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Gabon
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Dialects
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Georgia
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.0078,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Dialects
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
France
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0096,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1579
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million15.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million8.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
30.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Svenska
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Ruotsi, Svenska
French Name
ukrainien
suédois
German Name
Ukrainisch
Schwedisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Origin
1561
13th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Germanic
Branch
Eastern
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Old Swedish
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Standard Swedish
Language Position
2689
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
sv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
swe
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
swe
ISO 639 3
ukr
swe
ISO 639 6
ukr
swe
Glottocode
ukra1253
swed1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
52-AAA-ck to -cw
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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