Ukrainian language has persisted despite continuous persecution from ruling powers, however, the language survived due to the large number of Ukrainian people who even in the bans continued to enjoy their folklore songs, Kobzars and the works of their prominent authors.

Ukrainian is usually considered difficult for native English speakers because of their different alphabet, complex system of endings, perfective and imperfective verb forms, unpredictable accents within words, and difficult pronunciation.

Ukraine has a diverse array of spoken languages. About half of the Ukrainian population is bilingual; Ukrainian and Russian are spoken widely, because of long lasted and close bonds between Russian and Ukrainian people. In the Eastern part of Ukraine (kyiv, Donets’k, Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnepropetrovsk, Crimea) people mostly speak Russian, in the West of Ukraine (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Ternopil, Vinnytsia) people mostly speak in Ukrainian, although large segments of the population speak “Surzhyk”, which is a mixture of Ukrainian with Russian.

Russian speakers make up the second largest language group in Ukraine (29.6% of Ukraine population) and the rest are native speakers of other languages including Romanian, North Central Romani, Polish, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Plautdietsch, Lezgian, Tatar and Hungarian. The demand for English is soaring; English speakers won’t have a problem communicating with Ukrainian people.

There is also a large number of dialects spoken in Ukraine, these includes Polissian dialects, Middle Dnieprian, Slobozhan, Balachka, Boyko, Hutsul, Lemko, Podillian, Volynian, Pokuttia (Bukovynian), Upper Dniestrian, Upper Sannian, Dolinian Rusyn, Pannonian, and Pryashiv Rusyn.

Other languages that deserve a mention are:

Crimean Tatar language: Also known as Crimean and Crimean Turkish, it is spoken in mainly Crimea. With 260.000 Crimean Tatars in Crimea and 150.000 in exile, Crimean Tatar is one of the most endangered languages in Europe.
Karaim language: It is a Turkic language with Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian influences; it is spoken by Crimean Karaites, Three different dialects developed: the Troki dialect spoken in Trakai (also known as Troki) and Vilnius, the Lutsk- Halych dialect spoken in Lutsk and Halych, and the Crimean dialect. Most dialects of Karaim are endangered, only the oldest generation still speaks this language.
Krymchak language: It is spoken by Krymchak people; the language contains numerous Hebrew and Aramaic loanwords. Before the Soviet period it was written using Hebrew characters, after it was written with the Uniform Turkic Alphabet, now it is written in Cyrillic script. Unfortunately the language is almost extinct.
Urum language: It is spoken for several thousand people in the South-eastern Ukraine.
Gagauz language: It is spoken by approximately 150,000 people, mainly Gagauz people; this is a different language from Balkan Gagauz Turkish.

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