Countries
Ukraine
  
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
North Korea, South Korea
  
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
  
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
The National Institute of the Korean 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.
  
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Chinese and Japanese languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Korean-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Hangul
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
  
Please
будь ласк
  
하십시오 (hasibsio)
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
안녕 (annyeong)
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Jeju
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Gyeongsang
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Hamgyŏng
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
China, North Korea
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
77.00 million
  
22
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
77.00 million
  
12
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
한국어 (조선말)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
coréen
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Koreanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Koreans
  
Origin
1561
  
Before 1st century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Koreanic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Korean Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
ko
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
kor
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
kor
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
Kor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
kore1280
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
45-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Ukrainian and Korean 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 Korean greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Korean language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Korean word for "Thank You" is 감사합니다 (gamsahabnida). Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Korean Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Korean Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Korean difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Korean 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 Korean are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Korean, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Korean time required is 88 weeks.