Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Russia
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
39.00 million
  
25
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Not Available
  
French Name
russe
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1561
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
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