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Also known as Ukrainian language, Ukrainska

East Slavic language

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Ukrainian is a modern natural language belonging to the East Slavic subclass. It follows Ruthenian and Southern Russian, having replaced Ruthenian and Old Ukrainian. The language is native to Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Maramureș County, and Suceava County. It is spoken in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, and Canada. Its native label is українська мова, and it is also known by short names including українська, Ukrainian, ukraynca, and ucraniano.

The language uses Cyrillic and Latin scripts. It is a synthetic, fusional, nominative–accusative language with a subject–verb–object typology. Ukrainian features masculine, feminine, and neuter grammatical genders. It includes dual grammatical person and nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative cases. Tenses include past, present, future, and pluperfect. The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and its Institute of the Ukrainian Language serve as regulatory bodies. It is studied through Ukrainian studies.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
modern language
Subclass of
East Slavic
Country
Moldova
Image
Ukrainian.svg
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Commons category
Ukrainian language
Wikimedia language code
uk
writing system
Latin script
topic's main category
Category:Ukrainian language
native label
українська мова
short name
украінская
category for films in this language
Category:Ukrainian-language films
has grammatical gender
neuter
indigenous to
Central Europe
has grammatical case
vocative case
has tense
pluperfect
Stack Exchange site URL
ukrainian.stackexchange.com
has grammatical mood
conditional
P10369
Turkey
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
number of speakers, writers, or signers
26900000
topic has template
Template:Ukrainian language
entry in abbreviations table
укр.
name
ꠃꠇ꠆ꠞꠦꠘꠤ ꠝꠣꠔ
category for music in this language
Category:Ukrainian-language music
female form of label
la langue ukrainienne
NCI Thesaurus ID
C154186
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Encyclopedic overview

Ukrainian (українська мова, ukrainska mova, IPA: [ʊkrɐˈjinʲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]) is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the first (native) language of a large majority of Ukrainians.

Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script. The standard language is studied by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Potebnia Institute of Linguistics. Comparisons are often made between Ukrainian and Russian, another East Slavic language, yet there is more mutual intelligibility with Belarusian, and a closer lexical distance to West Slavic Polish and South Slavic Bulgarian.

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