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Ukrainian vs Spanish


Countries

Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara   
Ukraine   

Total No. Of Countries
46   
1
1   
14

National Language
Spain   
Ukraine   

Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America   
Europe   

Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom   
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia   

Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española   
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language   

Interesting Facts
  • One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic 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
French Language   
Russian and Belarusian Languages   

Derived From
Latin   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
27   
9
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
6   
3

How Many Consonants
22   
12
22   
12

Scripts
Latin   
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
hola   
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)   

Thank You
Gracias   
Дякую (Dyakuyu)   

How Are You?
Cómo estás?   
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)   

Good Night
Buenas Noches   
На добраніч (Na dobranič)   

Good Evening
Bonne soirée   
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)   

Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes   
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)   

Good Morning
Buenos Días   
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)   

Please
Por Favor   
будь ласк   

Sorry
triste   
вибачте (vybachte)   

Bye
adiós   
до побачення (do pobachennya)   

I Love You
Te Quiero   
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)   

Excuse Me
Discúlpeme   
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish   
Podillian   

Where They Speak
Mexico   
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia   

How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00   
5
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish   
Volynian   

Where They Speak
Cuba   
Rivne, Volyn   

How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00   
8
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish   
Steppe   

Where They Speak
Puerto Rico   
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine   

How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00   
9
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
15   
14

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
489.00 million   
3
39.00 million   
32

Speaking Population
6.15 %   
3
0.46 %   
30

Native Speakers
410.00 million   
2
39.00 million   
25

Second Language Speakers
89.50 million   
9
Not Available   

Native Name
Español   
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)   

Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español   
Not Available   

French Name
espagnol; castillan   
ukrainien   

German Name
Spanisch   
Ukrainisch   

Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]   
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
Ukrainians   

History

Origin
210 BC   
1561   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Romance   
Slavic   

Branch
Not Available   
Eastern   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish   
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian   

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish   
Modern Ukrainian   

Language Position
2   
2
26   
22

Signed Forms
Signed Spanish   
Ukrainian Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
es   
uk   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
spa   
ukr   

ISO 639 2/B
spa   
ukr   

ISO 639 3
spa   
ukr   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
stan1288   
ukra1253   

Linguasphere
51-AAA-b   
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
Fusional, Synthetic   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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Spanish and Ukrainian Language History

Comparison of Spanish vs Ukrainian language history gives us differences between origin of Spanish and Ukrainian language. History of Spanish language states that this language originated in 210 BC whereas history of Ukrainian language states that this language originated in 1561. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Spanish and Ukrainian Language History.

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Spanish 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 Spanish and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Spanish and Ukrainian language. Spanish word for "Hello" is hola or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Spanish Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Spanish vs Ukrainian Difficulty

The Spanish vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Spanish 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 Spanish and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Spanish and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Spanish is 24 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.

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