Ukrainian

Ukrainian is a modern natural language belonging to the East Slavic subclass. It follows Ruthenian and Southern Russian, having replaced Ruthenian and Old Ukrainian. The language is native to Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Maramureș County, and Suceava County. It is spoken in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, and Canada. Its native label is українська мова, and it is also known by short names including українська, Ukrainian, ukraynca, and ucraniano.

The language uses Cyrillic and Latin scripts. It is a synthetic, fusional, nominative–accusative language with a subject–verb–object typology. Ukrainian features masculine, feminine, and neuter grammatical genders. It includes dual grammatical person and nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative cases. Tenses include past, present, future, and pluperfect. The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and its Institute of the Ukrainian Language serve as regulatory bodies. It is studied through Ukrainian studies.