Ukrainian language

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Ukrainian language
Spoken in: Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, USA, Canada, Belarus, Slovakia, Argentina, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Romania, Western Europe, Croatia
Speaker: 39 Millionen
Rank: 25
Offical language:
Country: Ukraine
Linguistic classification:
Indo-European languages
   Slavic languages
      Eastern slavic languages
         Ukrainian language

The Ukrainian language (ukrainian: українська (мова), transliteration: ukrajins'ka mova) is an eastern slavin language. This language is a part of the indo-european language family.

Ukrainian is the second mostly spoken slavic language. Ukrainian is only in the Ukraine a official language. There are 37 millions speaker (mostly native speaker). All over the world there are more than 50 million speakers.

Ukrainian language will be written with cyrillic letters.

[edit] Alphabet

The today ukrainian alphabet with transliteration and german transcription:

Groß (HTML-Entity) Klein (HTML-Entity) wissenschaftliche
Transliteration
deutsche
Transkription
А (А) а (а) A a A a
Б (Б) б (б) B b B b
В (В) в (в) V v W w
Г (Г) г (г) H h H h
Ґ (Ґ) ґ (ґ) G g G g
Д (Д) д (д) D d D d
Е (Е) е (е) E e E e
Є (Є) є (є) Je je Je je
Ж (Ж) ж (ж) Ž ž Sch (Sh) sch (sh)
З (З) з (з) Z z S s
И (И) и (и) Y y Y y
І (І) і (і) I i I i
Ї (Ї) ї (ї) Ji ji Ji ji
Й (Й) й (й) J j 1 J j
К (К) к (к) K k K k (statt ks auch x)
Л (Л) л (л) L l L l
М (М) м (м) M m M m
Н (Н) н (н) N n N n
О (О) о (о) O o O o
П (П) п (п) P p P p
Р (Р) р (р) R r R r
С (С) с (с) S s S s (zwischen Vokalen auch ss)
Т (Т) т (т) T t T t
У (У) у (у) U u U u
Ф (Ф) ф (ф) F f F f
Х (Х) х (х) Ch ch Ch ch
Ц (Ц) ц (ц) C c Z z
Ч (Ч) ч (ч) Č č Tsch tsch
Ш (Ш) ш (ш) Š š Sch sch
Щ (Щ) щ (щ) Šč šč Schtsch schtsch (Stsch stsch)
ь (ь) ’ bzw. j 2 (Weichheitszeichen) (–) bzw. j
Ю (Ю) ю (ю) Ju Ju Ju ju
Я (Я) я (я) Ja ja Ja ja
’ (apostrophe)3 (–)
  • Notes:
1only befor o
2only after consonants; a capital letter does'nt exist; the soft sign ь is not a letter representing a sound, but modifies the sound of the preceding letter, indicating palatalisation ('softening').
3an apostrophe (’) is used to mark de-palatalization of the preceding consonant.