Countries
Ukraine
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
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.
  
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
будь ласк
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
sorry
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
1561
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Standard Dutch
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic