Countries
Ukraine
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-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)
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
будь ласк
  
bitte
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
allemand
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Germans
  
Origin
1561
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic