Countries
Ukraine
  
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
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.
  
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Czech Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Ahoj
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
Ďakujem vám
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Ako sa máte?
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Dobrú noc
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Dobré popoludnie
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Dobré ráno
  
Please
будь ласк
  
Prosím
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Pardón!
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
Dovidenia
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Prepáčte!
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Eastern Slovak
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Central Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Western Slovak
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
5.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
5.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
slovenčina
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
slovaque
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Slowakisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Slovaks
  
Origin
1561
  
6th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Proto-Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Slovak
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
sk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
slk
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
slo
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
slk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
slov1269
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
53-AAA-db
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic