National Language
Ukraine
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Palau
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Korean Language
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Kana
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
будь ласк
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Podillian
Sanuki
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Volynian
Hakata
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Fukuoka
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
kansai
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
日本語
Alternative Names
Not Available
Not Available
French Name
ukrainien
japonais
German Name
Ukrainisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Japanese (Yamato)
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Not Available
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Japanese
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
ukra1253
nucl1643
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
45-CAA-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Ukrainian and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Japanese language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Japanese word for "Thank You" is ありがとう (Arigatō). Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Japanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Japanese Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Japanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Japanese 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 Japanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Japanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Japanese time required is 88 weeks.