Countries
Ukraine
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
будь ласк
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Russki
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
russe
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Russians
  
Origin
1561
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic