The first language of the country is of course Ukrainian, spoken by about 68 per cent of the population. Russian is spoken by about 30 per cent. There are other languages too, though spoken by much smaller number of people, like Crimean Tatar, Moldavian, Hungarian, Romanian etc.
Ukrainian became the official language in 1989, about two years before the country became independent. Later, in 1996, the country’s constitution reaffirmed its official status.
The script of Ukrainian is very similar to the Russian alphabet. At the same time Ukrainian is also very close to the Polish language. Ukrainian is an Indo-European language, being structurally similar to German, Greek, Celtic, Italian, Hindi etc. Linguists would say that it is a close cousin of Polish, Serbian, Czech, Russian, Belorussian and Bulgarian.
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