Countries
Ukraine
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Ukraine
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
будь ласк
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Podillian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Volynian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Olonets
Dialect 3
Steppe
Novgorod
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Novgorod
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Русский
Alternative Names
Not Available
Russki
French Name
ukrainien
russe
German Name
Ukrainisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Russians
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
ukra1253
russ1263
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Ukrainian and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Russian language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Russian Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.