Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  
- 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
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Danish-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
Hallo
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Mange tak
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
God nat
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
God aften
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
God morgen
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
Please
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
Undskyld!
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
Farvel
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Scanian
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Sweden
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Jutlandic
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Denmark
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
5.50 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.50 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
dansk
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
Not Available
  
French Name
danois
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Dänisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
c. 1100 AD
  
1561
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Danish
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
da
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
dan
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
dan
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
dan
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
dani1284
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic