Countries
Ukraine
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
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
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian 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.
  
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
будь ласк
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Serbia
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
8.70 million
  
99+
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
serbe
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Serbs
  
Origin
1561
  
11th 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
  
Standard Serbian
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Ukrainian and Serbian 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 Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Serbian language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Serbian Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Serbian 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 Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.