Countries
European Union, Slovenia
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
- 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
Serbo-Croatian
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Slovene-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
Halo
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Hvala
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Kako se imate?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
Lahko noč
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
Dober večer
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
Dober dan
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
Prosim
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
Nasvidenje
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Ljubim te
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Oprostite
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Resian
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Styrian
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Slovenia
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
Not available
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
  
Not Available
  
French Name
slovène
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Slowenisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Slovenes
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
972-1093
  
1561
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Slovene
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sl
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
slv
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
slv
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
slv
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
slov1268
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Slovene 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 Slovene and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Slovene and Ukrainian language. Slovene word for "Hello" is Halo or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Slovene Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Slovene vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Slovene vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Slovene 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 Slovene and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Slovene and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Slovene is 44 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.