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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Ukraine

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Ukraine

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia

1.7 Regulated By

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Russian and Belarusian Languages

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

33
Rank: 15 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

22
Rank: 12 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)

3.2 Thank You

Дякую (Dyakuyu)

3.3 How Are You?

Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)

3.4 Good Night

На добраніч (Na dobranič)

3.5 Good Evening

Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)

3.6 Good Afternoon

Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)

3.7 Good Morning

Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)

3.8 Please

будь ласк

3.9 Sorry

вибачте (vybachte)

3.10 Bye

до побачення (do pobachennya)

3.11 I Love You

я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)

3.12 Excuse Me

Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Podillian

4.1.1 Where They Speak

North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Volynian

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Rivne, Volyn

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Steppe

4.3.1 Where They Speak

South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

15
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

39.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.46 %
Rank: 30 (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

39.00 million
Rank: 25 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Українська (Ukrajins'ka)

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Not Available

5.3.4 French Name

ukrainien

5.3.5 German Name

Ukrainisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]

5.5 Ethnicity

Ukrainians

6 History

6.1 Origin

1561

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Slavic

6.2.2 Branch

Eastern

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Old East Slavic, Ukrainian

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Modern Ukrainian

6.3.3 Language Position

26
Rank: 22 (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Ukrainian Sign Language

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

uk

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

ukr

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

ukr

7.3 ISO 639 3

ukr

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

ukra1253

7.6 Linguasphere

53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Origin of Ukrainian language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Ukrainian language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Ukrainian language states that it was put to use in 1561. The history of Ukrainian language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Ukrainian Language History.The evolution of Ukrainian language began with early forms such as Old East Slavic, Ukrainian. Modern Ukrainian is the standard form of Ukrainian language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Ukrainian Language.

Ukrainian population

Ukrainian population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Ukrainian language. Ukrainian language is spoken by 39.00 million people in the world. Most of the Ukrainian population lies in the Ukrainian Speaking Countries. Ukrainian language is spoken as first language by 39.00 million people and no total count of people speaking Ukrainian as second language. Get to know Ukrainian speaking population in detail.

Ukrainian writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Ukrainian writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Ukrainian language. Some languages share common writing systems. Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille script is used by Ukrainian language. Learn more about . 

Information about Ukrainian language

Check out all the information about Ukrainian language here. You may find it interesting to learn Ukrainian Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Ukrainian Speaking Countries, Ukrainian speaking continents and Ukrainian Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Ukrainian countries knowing common Ukrainian Greetings will help you in communicating with Ukrainian people.