Countries
Ukraine
  
Estonia, European Union
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Estonia, Gambia
  
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
  
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
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.
  
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Finnish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Tere
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
aitäh
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
kuidas sul läheb
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Head ööd
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Tere õhtust
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Tere päevast
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Tere hommikust
  
Please
будь ласк
  
Palun
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Vabandust
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
Head aega
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
ma armastan sind
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Vabandage
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Keskmurre
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Tartu
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Idamurre
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
1.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
0.95 million
  
99+
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
eesti keel
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Eesti keel
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
estonien
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Estnisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Estonians
  
Origin
1561
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Estonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Estonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
est
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
esto1258
  
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-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Ukrainian and Estonian 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 Estonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Estonian language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Estonian word for "Thank You" is aitäh. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Estonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Estonian Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Estonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Estonian 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 Estonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Estonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Estonian time required is 44 weeks.