Countries
Czech Republic, European Union
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Czech Republic
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Czech Language
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
  
- 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
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Czech-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
ahoj
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
děkuji
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Jak se máš?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
dobrou noc
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
dobrý večer
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
dobré odpoledne
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
dobré ráno
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
prosím
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
litovat
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
sbohem
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Miluji tě
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
promiňte
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Chod
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Chodsko, Bohemia
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Dialect 2
Lach
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Moravian
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
11.00 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
čeština / český jazyk
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Bohemian, Cestina
  
Not Available
  
French Name
tchèque
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Tschechisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Czechs
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1561
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Western
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Czech
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Czech Sign Language
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
cs
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ces
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
cze
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
ces
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
czec1258
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-da
  
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
  
Czech and Ukrainian 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 Czech and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Czech and Ukrainian language. Czech word for "Hello" is ahoj or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Czech Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Czech vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Czech vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Czech Alphabets and Ukrainian 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 Czech and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Czech and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Czech is 44 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.