Countries
Ukraine
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
будь ласк
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Not Available
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Abkhazia
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Caucasus
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
0.13 million
  
99+
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
1561
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Abkhaz
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative