Countries
Ukraine
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Austria
  
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
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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 croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
bok
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
kako si
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
будь ласк
  
molim
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
croate
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Croats
  
Origin
1561
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Ukrainian and Croatian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Ukrainian and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Croatian language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Croatian Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Croatian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Ukrainian and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.