Ukrainian
East Slavic language
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Summary
Ukrainian is a natural language[1]. Ukrainian ranks in the top 5% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,213 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Ukraine[3], Russia[4], Poland[5], Canada[6], Kazakhstan[7], Belarus[8], Romania[9], Slovakia[10], Serbia[11], United States[12], Hungary[13], Czech Republic[14], Moldova[15]
- Instance of: modern language[16]
- Follows: Ruthenian[17]
- Subclass of: East Slavic[18]
- Writing system: Cyrillic script[19], Latin script[20]
- Commons category: Ukrainian language[21]
- Wikimedia language code: uk[22]
- Topic's main category: Category:Ukrainian language[23]
- Language regulatory body: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine[24], Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine[25], Potebnia Institute of Linguistics[26], Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language[27]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 27,300,000[28], 34,710,100[29], 26,900,000[30]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Ukrainian[31]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[32], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[33], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[34], Ukrainian Language: An Encyclopedia[35], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[36]
- Replaces: Ruthenian[37], Old Ukrainian[38]
- Topic has template: Template:Ukrainian language[39]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/ukrainian[40], https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/ukrainian[41]
- Native label: українська мова[42]
- Short name: українська[43], Ukrainian[44], ukraynca[45], ucraniano[46], украинаг[47], украинский[48], украінская[49]
- Different from: Украинский язык (значения)[50]
Why It Matters
Ukrainian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] Ukrainian is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]