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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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