Language code: uk

Technical information about ISO 639 language code uk

Technical information about uk language code (Ukrainian) is available below.

ISO code

uk

Language

Official

Ukrainian

Native

Українська

Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

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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.

Language presence globally

Speakers

627K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Ukrainian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

uk-UA Ukrainian (Ukraine)

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