Ukrainian language
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The Ukrainian language (Ukrainian: українська (мова), transliteration: ukrajins'ka mova) is an Eastern Slavic language. This language is a part of the Indo-European language family.
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Pronunciation | [ukrɑˈjinʲsʲkɑ ˈmɔwɑ] |
Native to | Ukraine |
Ethnicity | Ukrainians |
Native speakers | 45 million (2007)[1] |
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Official status | |
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Regulated by | National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language, Ukrainian language-information fund, Potebnya Institute of Language Studies |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | uk |
ISO 639-2 | ukr |
ISO 639-3 | ukr |
Glottolog | ukra1253 Ukrainian |
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Ukrainian-speaking world | |
Ukrainian language and Ukrainians with their neighbors in the early 20th century. | |
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Ukrainian is the second most spoken Slavic language. It is the official language of Ukraine. There are 37 million speakers in Ukraine. Most of them are native speakers. All over the world there are more than 50 million speakers.
The Ukrainian language is written with Cyrillic letters.
Some words are similar to the Polish language.