Countries
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
33
Rank: 15 (Overall)
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
22
Rank: 12 (Overall)
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
будь ласк
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Podillian
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.00
Rank: 17 (Overall)
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Volynian
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.00
Rank: 15 (Overall)
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Steppe
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.00
Rank: 14 (Overall)
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
15
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall)
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.46 %
Rank: 32 (Overall)
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
39.00 million
Rank: 25 (Overall)
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million
Rank: 26 (Overall)
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
ukrainien
German Name
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Origin
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Branch
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
26
Rank: 24 (Overall)
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
ISO 639 3
ukr
ISO 639 6
ukr
Glottocode
ukra1253
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic