Do Ukrainians speak Russian more than Ukrainian?

The official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian, an East Slavic language, which is the native language of 67.5\% of Ukraine’s population. Russian is the native language of 29.6\% of Ukraine’s population and the rest (2.9\%) are native speakers of other languages.

Do Russian and Ukrainian sound the same?

Russian and Ukrainian are different in pronunciation. To non-native speakers and for those not familiar with the language, they can sound the same. However, they are only roughly similar, and enough to be noticeable by people familiar with the languages. Ukranian has more soft consonants.

How mutually intelligible are Russian and Ukrainian?

Russian is also 85\% mutually intelligible with Belarusian and Ukrainian in writing. However, Russian is only 74\% mutually intelligible with spoken Belarusian and 50\% mutually intelligible with spoken Ukrainian.

Why do so many Russians think that Ukrainian is similar to Russian?

Russians are used to think that Ukrainian is similar to Russian because most not well-educated people of Ukraine speak a mixture of Ukrainian and Russian called Surzhick. It is an awful semi-literate dialect which Ukrainians despise as much as Russians do.

Do Ukrainians still speak Russian in everyday life?

Unfortunately more than half of Ukrainians still speak Russian in everyday life, despite most of them learnt Ukrainian at school and understand it well (they even declare Ukrainian as their native language, but continue to speak Russian…). Russian and Ukrainian are not so close languages as some people state here.

What is the official language of Ukraine?

Ukraine has its own language although in the East, Russian is widely used for daily communication. However, Russian does not have an official status. All documents must be in Ukrainian. Even if they speak Russian, it’s still accented the Ukrainian way.

Is Ukrainian a fake language or a real language?

There’s a lot of speculation: Some say that Ukrainian is a fake language and just a vernacular of Russian (and there’s apparently even fake evidence of that!). In order to know for sure, let’s take a closer look at these two languages and their histories.