Countries
Ukraine
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
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.
  
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
будь ласк
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Bulgaria
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Bulgaria
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
7.80 million
  
99+
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1561
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available