Countries
Ukraine
  
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
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.
  
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Romanian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Përshëndetje
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
Ju faleminderit
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Si jeni?
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
natën e mirë
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
mirëmbrëma
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
mirëdita
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
mirëmengjes
  
Please
будь ласк
  
Ju lutem
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Me fal
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
mirupafshim
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
unë e dua ju
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Më falni
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Gheg Albanian
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,400,000.00
  
20
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Tosk Albanian
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
20
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Arbëresh
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
7.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
3.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
3.60 million
  
31
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
albanais
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Albanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
[ʃcip]
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Albanians
  
Origin
1561
  
1462 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Old Albanian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Standard Albanian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
sq
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
sqi
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
alb
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
sqi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
alba1267
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
55-AAA-aaa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic