Languages of Ukraine

Languages of
country = Ukraine

!300px
caption = Orange — Ukrainian language has an absolute majority
Gray — Ukrainian language's majority.
Blue — Russian language's absolute majority
official =

* Ukrainian
unofficial =

* Russian
main =
regional =

* Russian and Crimean in Crimea
* Hungarian in 7 villages of Zakarpattia Oblast
indigenous =

* Crimean
* "Krymchak"
* "Karaim"
* "Urum"
minority = Collapsible list
title = 13 recognised|
* Belarusian|
* Bulgarian|
* Crimean|
* Gagauz|
* German|
* Greek|
* Hungarian|
* Jewish|
* Moldovan|
* Polish|
* Romanian|
* Russian|
* Slovak
immigrant =
foreign =

#Russian
#English
#German
#French
#Spanish
sign = Ukrainian Sign Language
keyboard = Cyrillic layout in Windows Vista
keyboard

source =Census-2001The official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian, an East Slavic language which is the native language of 67.5% of Ukraine's population. Russian is the native language of 29.6% of Ukraine's population and the rest are native speakers of other languages. Ethnologue lists the following total of 40 minority languages and dialects: Abkhaz, Armenian, Balkan Romani, Baltic Romani, Baskkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Carpathian Romani, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Czech, Dargwa, Eastern Yiddish, Erzya, Gagauz, Georgian, Gotlander Swedish, Greek, Hungarian, Jakati a form of Punjabi from India, Jassic (Yassi or Yanni) of Persian origin, Kazakh, Lak, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lezgian, Mordvian, Osetin, Polish, Romanian, Rusyn, Serbian, Slovak, Standard German, Tajik, Tatar, Tosk Albanian, Turkish, Uzbek, Ukrainian sign language, Urum, Vlax Romani and Yakut.

According to Article 10 of the Constitution of Ukraine the state has an obligation to ensure the comprehensive development and functioning of the Ukrainian language in all spheres of social life throughout Ukraine while guaranteeing the free development, use and protection of the languages of Ukraine's national minorities.

ee also

*Ukrainian language
*Demographics of Ukraine
*Russian language in Ukraine

Bibliography

* [http://ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/language/ Linguistic composition of the population] , according to the Ukrainian census of 2001
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=UA Languages of Ukraine] by Ethnologue

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