Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Ukraine
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Ukraine
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
- 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
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
سلام
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
متشکرم
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
شب بخیر
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Sorry
متاسف
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
خدا حافظ
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Podillian
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Volynian
Where They Speak
Afganistan
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Steppe
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
فارسی
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Not Available
French Name
persan
ukrainien
German Name
Persisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Ukrainians
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Persian
Modern Ukrainian
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
fars1254
ukra1253
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Persian 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 Persian and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Persian and Ukrainian language. Persian word for "Hello" is سلام or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Persian Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Persian vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Persian vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Persian 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 Persian and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Persian and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Persian is 44 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.