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Language code: ukr

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ukr

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The table below provides technical details for the Ukrainian language, designated by the ukr code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

ukr

Name

Official

Ukrainian

Native

Українська

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
NorthernSouth-WesternSouth-Eastern
Related languages
BelarusianRussianRusynPolish
Key facts
Written with a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet that includes unique letters such as Ґ, Є, Ї and Ьretains the vocative case, which has disappeared from many other Slavic languageshistorical Slavic /g/ shifted to a fricative /h/, giving Ukrainian distinctive cognate forms (e.g., hora vs. gora)shows considerable lexical influence from Polish and other West Slavic tonguesthe first extant texts regarded as proto-Ukrainian date back to the 11th-12th centuries.
Sample phrase

Привіт, як ти?

Character encodings

Windows 1251, KOI8-U, KOI8-RU, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Ukrainian language, identified by the code ukr, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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