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Name:
Ukrainian
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Little Russian; Ukranian
Spoken in:
Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Ukraine, USA, Azerbaijan, Serbia and Montenegro, Estonia, Georgia, Paraguay, Tajikistan, Poland, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Brazil, Canada, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Romania, Hungary, Russia, Slovakia, Argentina, Latvia
Number of speakers:
31,100,000 in Ukraine (1993). Population total all countries: 37,029,730. Ethnic population: 37,419,000 (Johnstone 1993)
(Ethnologue)
Code:
ukr
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Dialect Group:
Old Ruthenian; Ruthenian; Old Kyivan Language; Old Belarusian; Old Belorussian; Old Ukraininan; Simple Ruthenian; Old West Russian; Lithuanian-Russian; Lithuanian-Slavonic; Russian-Polish (orv-olr)
Child Dialects:
Northwest Ukrainian; Northern Ukrainian (ukr-nor)
Southwest Ukrainian (ukr-sou)
East Ukrainian; Eastern Ukrainian (ukr-eas)

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