Countries
Ukraine
  
India
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
  
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
  
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.
  
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Munda Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Henda ho
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
Adi Johar
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Cet’leka menama?
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Boge Ninda
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Boge Ayup’
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Boge Setak’
  
Please
будь ласк
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Not Available
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Not Available
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Mahali
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
India
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
6.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
6.30 million
  
99+
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
santal
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Santali
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
  
Origin
1561
  
20th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Santali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
sat
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
sat
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
sat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
sant1410
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available