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Ukrainian vs Czech


Czech vs Ukrainian


Countries

Countries
Ukraine  
Czech Republic, European Union  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Ukraine  
Czech Republic  

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  
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia  

Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language  
Institute of the Czech 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.
  
  • The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
  • In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
  

Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages  
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Czech-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
33  
15
42  
22

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
32  
21

How Many Consonants
22  
12
32  
22

Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)  
ahoj  

Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)  
děkuji  

How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)  
Jak se máš?  

Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)  
dobrou noc  

Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)  
dobrý večer  

Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)  
dobré odpoledne  

Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)  
dobré ráno  

Please
будь ласк  
prosím  

Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)  
litovat  

Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)  
sbohem  

I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)  
Miluji tě  

Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)  
promiňte  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Podillian  
Chod  

Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia  
Chodsko, Bohemia  

How Many People Speak
42,000,000.00  
17
11,000,000.00  
36

Dialect 2
Volynian  
Lach  

Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn  
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia  

How Many People Speak
44,000,000.00  
15
10,500,000.00  
36

Dialect 3
Steppe  
Moravian  

Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine  
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia  

How Many People Speak
42,000,000.00  
14
108,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
15  
14
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
39.00 million  
32
11.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.46 %  
32
0.15 %  
99+

Native Speakers
39.00 million  
25
11.00 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
30.00 million  
26
10.00 million  
99+

Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)  
čeština / český jazyk  

Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova  
Bohemian, Cestina  

French Name
ukrainien  
tchèque  

German Name
Ukrainisch  
Tschechisch  

Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]  
[ˈtʃɛʃkɪ]  

Ethnicity
Ukrainians  
Czechs  

History

Origin
1561  
9th Century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Slavic  

Branch
Eastern  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian  
Proto-Czech, Old Czech  

Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian  
Standard Czech  

Language Position
26  
24
73  
99+

Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language  
Czech Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
uk  
cs  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ukr  
ces  

ISO 639 2/B
ukr  
cze  

ISO 639 3
ukr  
ces  

ISO 639 6
ukr  
ces  

Glottocode
ukra1253  
czec1258  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq  
53-AAA-da  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Ukrainian and Czech Language History

Comparison of Ukrainian vs Czech language history gives us differences between origin of Ukrainian and Czech language. History of Ukrainian language states that this language originated in 1561 whereas history of Czech language states that this language originated in 9th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Ukrainian and Czech Language History.

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Ukrainian and Czech Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Ukrainian and Czech greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Czech language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Czech word for "Thank You" is děkuji. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Czech Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Ukrainian vs Czech Difficulty

The Ukrainian vs Czech difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Czech Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Ukrainian and Czech are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Czech, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Czech time required is 44 weeks.

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