Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  
- 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
French and Portuguese Languages
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Italian-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
ciao
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
grazie
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Come stai?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
buonanotte
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
buonasera
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
buongiorno
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
Per Favore
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
scusate
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
arrivederci
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Ti amo
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Scusami
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Romanesco
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Lazio
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
21
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Central Italian
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Tuscan
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
78.00 million
  
21
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
64.00 million
  
18
39.00 million
  
25
Second Language Speakers
14.00 million
  
20
Not Available
  
Native Name
Italiano
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Italiano
  
Not Available
  
French Name
italien
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Italienisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Italians
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
960 BC
  
1561
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Italian
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
it
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ita
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
ita
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
ita
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
itas
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ital1282
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-q
  
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, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic