Languages of the country

Ukraine

Official language: Ukrainian. Population (CLDR): 36 million.

Map of regions

We have not described regional languages for this country yet – the map shows the whole country in the colour of its main language.

Languages and their status

Share: the estimated part of the population that uses the language (also as a second language), according to CLDR.

LanguageStatusShare
Ukrainian українська Official 65%
Russian русский

A minority language and widely known second language; Ukrainian is the only state language.

Widely used 46%
Polish polski Minority 2.4%
Belarusian беларуская Minority 0.8%
Romanian română Minority 0.5%
Bulgarian български Minority 0.5%
Turkish Türkçe Minority 0.4%
Hungarian magyar Minority 0.4%
Greek Ελληνικά Minority <0.1%

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