Countries
Ukraine
  
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Middle East
  
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.
  
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Farsi Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Silaw
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
Sipas
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Tu çawa yî?
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Şev xweş
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Evare baş
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Bayanit bash
  
Please
будь ласк
  
Bê zehmet
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bibûre
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
Be xêr çî
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Ez te hez dikem
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Bê zehmet
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Northern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Central Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Southern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Eastern Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
21.00 million
  
36
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
kurde
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Kurdisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Kurds
  
Origin
1561
  
16th century CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Kurdish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
ku
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
kur
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
kur
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
kur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
kurd1259
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
58-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available