Countries
Japan
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Japan
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Palau
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  
- 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
Korean Language
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kana
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Sanuki
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Kagawa
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00
  
28
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hakata
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Kansai
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
kansai
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million
  
14
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
128.00 million
  
9
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
日本語
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
French Name
japonais
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Japanisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
1185
  
1561
  
Language Family
Japonic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Japanese
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ja
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
jpn
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1643
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic