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Spanish vs Ukrainian


Countries

Countries
Ukraine  
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
46  
1

National Language
Ukraine  
Spain  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America  

Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia  
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom  

Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language  
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española  

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.
  
  • One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  

Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages  
French Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Latin  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
33  
15
27  
9

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
5  
2

How Many Consonants
22  
12
22  
12

Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)  
hola  

Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)  
Gracias  

How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)  
Cómo estás?  

Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)  
Buenas Noches  

Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)  
Bonne soirée  

Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)  
Buenas Tardes  

Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)  
Buenos Días  

Please
будь ласк  
Por Favor  

Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)  
triste  

Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)  
adiós  

I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)  
Te Quiero  

Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)  
Discúlpeme  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Podillian  
Mexican Spanish  

Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia  
Mexico  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
105,000,000.00  
5

Dialect 2
Volynian  
Cuban Spanish  

Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn  
Cuba  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
11,000,000.00  
8

Dialect 3
Steppe  
Puerto Rican Spanish  

Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine  
Puerto Rico  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
3,900,000.00  
9

Total No. Of Dialects
15  
14
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
39.00 million  
32
489.00 million  
3

Speaking Population
0.46 %  
30
6.15 %  
3

Native Speakers
39.00 million  
25
410.00 million  
2

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
89.50 million  
9

Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)  
Español  

Alternative Names
Not Available  
Castellano, Castilian, Español  

French Name
ukrainien  
espagnol; castillan  

German Name
Ukrainisch  
Spanisch  

Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]  
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]  

Ethnicity
Ukrainians  
Not Available  

History

Origin
1561  
210 BC  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Romance  

Branch
Eastern  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian  
Old Spanish and Spanish  

Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian  
Pluricentric Standard Spanish  

Language Position
26  
22
2  
2

Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language  
Signed Spanish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
uk  
es  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ukr  
spa  

ISO 639 2/B
ukr  
spa  

ISO 639 3
ukr  
spa  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
ukra1253  
stan1288  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq  
51-AAA-b  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Ukrainian and Spanish Language History

Comparison of Ukrainian vs Spanish language history gives us differences between origin of Ukrainian and Spanish language. History of Ukrainian language states that this language originated in 1561 whereas history of Spanish language states that this language originated in 210 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Ukrainian and Spanish Language History.

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Ukrainian and Spanish 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 Spanish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Spanish language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Spanish word for "Thank You" is Gracias. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Spanish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Ukrainian vs Spanish Difficulty

The Ukrainian vs Spanish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Spanish 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 Spanish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Spanish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Spanish time required is 24 weeks.

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