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Technical information about ISO 639 language code uk
The table below provides technical details for the Ukrainian language, designated by the uk
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Ukrainian belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Slavic subgroup. It is the official language of Ukraine, and it is also used by Ukrainian minority communities in Belarus, Russia, and Moldova. It is written using the Cyrillic script (Ukrainian alphabet). It is estimated that there are between 35 and 40 million speakers worldwide.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Ukrainian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
uk-UA
– Ukrainian (Ukraine)
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