Language code: uk
Technical information about ISO 639 language code uk
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The table below provides technical details for the Ukrainian language, designated by the uk code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Ukrainian Native Українська |
| Family | Slavic |
| Scripts | |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| Language varieties | Northern UkrainianSouth-Western UkrainianSouth-Eastern Ukrainian |
| Related languages | BelarusianRussianRusyn |
| Key facts | The Ukrainian alphabet has 33 letters, including unique characters Ґ, Є, І, ЇUkrainian shares over 80 % lexical similarity with Belarusian, the highest among Slavic languagesModern standard Ukrainian was codified in the late 19th century by writers such as Panteleimon Kulish and Ivan Nechuy-LevytskyThe language preserves two distinct phonemic 'i' vowels (і vs и), which merged in other East Slavic languagesUkrainian extensively uses diminutive suffixes, allowing affectionate or nuanced forms of most nouns |
| Sample phrase | Привіт, як ти? |
| Character encodings | |
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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
*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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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
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- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and Statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- FAQ
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ