Ukrainian Leid: East Slavic leid

It is the offeecial state leid o Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uises a variant o the Cyrillic alphabet.

Ukrainian
українська мова ukrajinśka mova
Pronunciation	[ukrɑˈjinʲsʲkɑ ˈmɔwɑ]
Native tae	Ukraine
Ethnicity	Ukrainians
Native speakers	35 million (2000) Speakers: aroond 40 million (estimatit)
Leid faimily	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic East Slavic Ukrainian
Early form	Auld East Slavic
Writin seestem	Cyrillic (Ukrainian alphabet) Ukrainian Braille
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Ukraine Crimea Transnistria,  Moldovae
Recognised minority leid in	Belaroushie  Bosnie an Herzegovinae  Croatie  Czech Republic  Hungary Template:MLD[citation needit]  Poland  Romanie  Serbie  Slovakie
Regulatit bi	National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language, Ukrainian language-information fund, Potebnya Institute of Language Studies
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	uk
ISO 639-2	ukr
ISO 639-3	ukr
Glottolog	ukra1253  Ukrainian
Linguasphere	53-AAA-ed < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq)
Ukrainian-speakin warld
Ukrainian leid an Ukrainians wi their neebours in the early 20t century.
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The Ukrainian leid traces its oreegins tae the Auld East Slavic o the early medieval state o Kievan Rus'. In its earlier stages it wis kent as Ruthenian. Ukrainian is a lineal descendant o the colloquial leid used in Kievan Rus (10t–13t century). Despite active discouragement the Ukrainian leid haes continued tae exist an be uised bi Ukrainians. It haes aaways maintained a sufficient base amang the Ukrainian fowk in its fowklore sangs, itinerant muisickers, an prominent authors. The letters are:

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