Countries
Ukraine
  
European Union, Slovenia
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
  
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
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  
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.
  
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Serbo-Croatian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovene-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
Hvala
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Kako se imate?
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Lahko noč
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Dober večer
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Dober dan
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Dobro jutro
  
Please
будь ласк
  
Prosim
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
Nasvidenje
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Ljubim te
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Oprostite
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Hungary, Slovenia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Resian
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Italy
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Styrian
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Slovenia
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
2.50 million
  
99+
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Not available
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Slovenian, Slovenscina
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
slovène
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Slowenisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Slovenes
  
Origin
1561
  
972-1093
  
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
  
Slovene
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
sl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
slv
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
slv
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
slv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
slov1268
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
53-AAA-f
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Ukrainian and Slovene 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 Slovene greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Slovene language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Slovene word for "Thank You" is Hvala. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Slovene Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Slovene Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Slovene difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Slovene 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 Slovene are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Slovene, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Slovene time required is 44 weeks.