Countries
Ukraine
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2221
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Cyrillic
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)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
будь ласк
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Podillian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Olonets
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Novgorod
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1513
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.46 %2.33 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
39.00 million166.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
30.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Русский
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Russki
French Name
ukrainien
russe
German Name
Ukrainisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Russians
Origin
1561
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Eastern
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Standard Russian
Language Position
267
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
rus
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
rus
ISO 639 3
ukr
rus
ISO 639 6
ukr
rus
Glottocode
ukra1253
russ1263
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic