Ukrainian language
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Spoken in: | Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, USA, Canada, Belarus, Slovakia, Argentina, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Romania, Western Europe, Croatia | ||||||||||||||||
Speaker: | 39 Millionen | ||||||||||||||||
Rank: | 25 | ||||||||||||||||
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Country: | Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||
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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 |
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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.