Language comparison
Russian vs Ukrainian
Both belong to the Indo-European family; their closest common node in the Glottolog tree: East Slavic. Both are used in: Ukraine.
Relatedness is not mutual intelligibility: languages of one branch can be unintelligible to each other, while very close ones (such as Serbian and Croatian) differ mainly in status and script. That is why we give no “similarity percentage”.
Russian
русский
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Balto-Slavic
- Slavic
- East Slavic
- Russian
- Script
- Cyrillic
- Hello / thank you
- здравствуйте / спасибо (zdravstvuyte / spasibo)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 208 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Official (1)
- Russia
- Co-official (3)
- Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan
- Without status
- widely used in 11 countries, a minority language in 8 countries
Ukrainian
українська
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Balto-Slavic
- Slavic
- East Slavic
- Ukrainian-Rusyn
- Ukrainian
- Script
- Cyrillic
- Hello / thank you
- добрий день / дякую (dobryi den / dyakuyu)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 25 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Official (1)
- Ukraine
- Official in a region (1)
- Serbia
- Without status
- widely used in 1 country, a minority language in 4 countries
Where they are spoken
- Russian 14
- Ukrainian 2
- both 1
Countries where the language has a legal status or is known by at least 10% of the population (CLDR); countries where it is only a minority language are not shown.