Countries
Ukraine
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
سلام
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
будь ласк
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
متاسف
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
65.00 million
  
17
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
persan
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Persian people
  
Origin
1561
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Ukrainian and Persian 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 Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Persian language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Persian Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.