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
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Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Kana
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Hakata
Volynian
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Rivne, Volyn
Where They Speak
kansai
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
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
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nucl1643
ukra1253
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Japanese 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 Japanese and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Japanese and Ukrainian language. Japanese word for "Hello" is こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa) or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Japanese Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Japanese vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Japanese vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Japanese 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 Japanese and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Japanese and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Japanese is 88 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.