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Ukrainian

Also known as Ukrainian language, Ukrainska

East Slavic language

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Ukrainian is an East Slavic language spoken primarily in Ukraine and by diaspora communities around the world. It matters because it is the official language of Ukraine and serves as a key part of Ukrainian national identity and culture.

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Commons category: Ukrainian language
Wikimedia language code: uk
native label: українська мова
short name: украінская
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/UKR
Stack Exchange site URL: ukrainian.stackexchange.com
P10369: Turkey
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 26900000
P11012: Arnaut Daniel
entry in abbreviations table: укр.
name: ꠃꠇ꠆ꠞꠦꠘꠤ ꠝꠣꠔ
P8168: Toshizō Nishio
Stack Exchange tag: tex.stackexchange.com/tags/ukrainian
female form of label: la langue ukrainienne
NCI Thesaurus ID: C154186

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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.