Countries
Ukraine
European Union, Slovenia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
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, Hungary, Italy
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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 Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Serbo-Croatian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3325
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2220
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Halo
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
Hvala
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Kako se imate?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Lahko noč
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Dober večer
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Dober dan
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Dobro jutro
Please
будь ласк
Prosim
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Oprostite
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
Nasvidenje
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Ljubim te
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Podillian
Prekmurje Slovene
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Hungary, Slovenia
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Resian
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Italy
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.002,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Styrian
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Slovenia
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.002,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1548
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
39.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.46 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
39.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Slovenščina
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Slovenian, Slovenscina
French Name
ukrainien
slovène
German Name
Ukrainisch
Slowenisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Slovenes
Origin
1561
972-1093
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Slovene
Language Position
2628
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Slovene Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
uk
sl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
slv
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
slv
ISO 639 3
ukr
slv
ISO 639 6
ukr
slv
Glottocode
ukra1253
slov1268
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
53-AAA-f
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional