Ukrainian language is the official language of Ukraine, the mother tongue of an estimated 35 million of its people (the vast majority of whom, and said in Russian) and the Ukrainians certain territories Russia (Kursk and Voronezh area, the Far East), eastern Poland, Slovakia, Moldova and Romania. Ukrainian speakers live in Canada, USA, Germany.
Language asterno-slavanski being similar to the Russian and Belarusian occurred of ancestor-ancient language, which fell apart in the 14th century, although some of the characteristics of the Ukrainian language were already in the 12st century.
Dialect Ukrainian language are divided into three groups: North (Polessye with features Belarusian language), south ("galiciyskie", "bukovinskie", "zakarpatskie", features of the Polish and Slovak languages) and the south-east, are closest to the literary norm (based Kiev-Poltava dialect, home to the founder of the Ukrainian literary language T. G. Shevchenko). Language in Polesie ("poleschukov") might be seen as a asternoslavanski language. The Zakarpatie distributed Romanian dialect, carriers which do not consider themselves Ukrainians (this ethnic group belonged to Austro-hungaru and russkimi called or wrote).
The Ukrainian language is a form of the Cyrillic alphabet ("kulishivka"), a few different from Russian: is a "i" (one point) for the sound [i] and the sign "ї" (with two points) for the sequence of sounds [ji]; to refer to the sequence of sounds [ja] sign "є", while the letter "e" the sound [e]). To indicate sound [j] after accepting the apostrophe: im'a "Name" (pronounced [imja]. Since sound designated "г" (g) letter, usually pronounced fricativo (close to the German "h"), there for a few borrowed from the Polish words with an explosive (as in English) [g] sometimes use a special mark distance (in the Soviet Ukraine has been applied). In Ukrainian is a wealth of fiction (actively created with 16th century; the best-known authors, I. Kotlyarevskiy, T. G. Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka, Ivan Franko, M. Kozubinski, Y. Janowski, O. Gonchar and others) scientific literature on all disciplines, policy documents, etc. language of the relevant stylistic tool for scientific, official and other texts.