Countries
Ukraine
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
будь ласк
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
népalais
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
1561
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative