TOP-10 facts about the Ukrainian language

In the world, 41-45 million people speak Ukrainian. For Ukrainians 36-37.5 million people are Ukrainian.

The Ukrainian language, according to various sources, occupies the 25th or 32th place in the number of carriers among the most widely spoken languages ​​in the world.

Modern Ukrainian has about 256 thousand words.

By the lexical reserve, the closest to the Ukrainian language is Belarusian - 84% of the common vocabulary, followed by Polish and Serbian (70% and 68% respectively) and only then - Russian (62%).

Only in the Ukrainian language, unlike the other East-Slavic languages, the noun has 7 cases, one of which is cliche.

The first mention of Ukrainian words dates from 448 years. Then the Byzantine historian Prisk Panyysky, while in the camp of the Hun master of Attila in the territory of modern Ukraine, wrote the words "honey" and "dish".

The Ukrainian language in different historical periods was called differently: simple, Russian, Rusyn, Cossack, etc. Historically, the most commonly used name of the Ukrainian language until the middle of the XIX century was the name "Russian language".

In Ukrainian, the largest number of words begins with the letter "P".

The letter "F" is the least commonly used letter of the Ukrainian alphabet.

Ukrainian language is rich in diminutive forms. The diminutive form has even the word "enemies" - "militants".