Countries
Ukraine
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3324
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
67
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2217
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
будь ласк
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Podillian
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Greece
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Griko
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Italy
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Mariupol
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1525
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
39.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
ukrainien
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Ukrainisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
1561
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Hellenic
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Modern Greek
Language Position
2674
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
ell
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
gre
ISO 639 3
ukr
ell
ISO 639 6
ukr
ells
Glottocode
ukra1253
gree1276
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic