Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Austria
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
hvala
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
molim
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
25
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
Not Available
  
Native Name
hrvatski
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Not Available
  
French Name
croate
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
9th century
  
1561
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic