Countries
Ukraine
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Total No. Of Countries
16
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
German and English Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2221
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)
Hallo
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
dankjewel
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
goede Nacht
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
goedemiddag
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
goedemorgen
Please
будь ласк
alsjeblieft
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
sorry
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
vaarwel
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
pardon
Dialect 1
Podillian
Gronings
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Netherlands
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Limburgian
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
157
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million22.00 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)
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
ukrainien
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Ukrainisch
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Dutch people
Origin
1561
AD 450-500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Germanic
Branch
Eastern
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Standard Dutch
Language Position
2648
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
nl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
nld
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
dut
ISO 639 3
ukr
nld
ISO 639 6
ukr
nld
Glottocode
ukra1253
mode1257
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
52-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic