Countries
Ukraine
  
China, Mongolia
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
China, Mongolia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
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
  
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
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.
  
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Turkish Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Please
будь ласк
  
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Mongolia
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Ordos Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
5.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
5.70 million
  
99+
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
mongol
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Mongolisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1561
  
1224-1225
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Mongolic family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Mongolian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
mn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
mon
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
mon
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
mon
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
mong1331
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
part of 44-BAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available