Countries
Ukraine
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Abkhazia
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
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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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
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Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3362
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
62
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2260
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
будь ласк
амритана
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Амарахь
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
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Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Podillian
Bzyb
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Sadz
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Turkey
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
153
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million0.13 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
30.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
ukrainien
abkhaze
German Name
Ukrainisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Abkhaz people
Origin
1561
c. 1650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Slavic
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Branch
Eastern
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Abkhaz
Language Position
2628
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
abk
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
abk
ISO 639 3
ukr
abk
ISO 639 6
ukr
abks
Glottocode
ukra1253
abkh1244
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative