The Ukrainian language is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the native language of a majority of Ukrainians.
Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet See more

Rus' and Kingdom of Ruthenia
The era of Kievan Rus' is the subject of some linguistic controversy, as the language of much of the literature was purely or heavily See more

The literary Ukrainian language, which was preceded by Old East Slavic literature, may be subdivided into two stages: during the … See more

Cyrillic letters in this article are romanized using scientific transliteration.
Grammar
Ukrainian is a fusional,
Nouns have one of 3 See more

Theories
Specific developments that led to a gradual change of the Old East Slavic vowel system into the system found in modern Ukrainian began approximately in the 12th/13th century (that is, still at the time of the Kievan … See more

The use of the Ukrainian language is increasing after a long period of decline. Although there are almost fifty million ethnic Ukrainians worldwide, including 37.5 million in Ukraine in 2001 (77.8% of the total population at the time), the Ukrainian language … See more

Ukrainian has varying degrees of mutual intelligibility with other Slavic languages. It is closely related to other East Slavic languages with high levels of mutual intelligibility. … See more