About Ukrainian Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Ukrainian is known as Ruthenian. It is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the Slavic languages and is a part of the larger Balto-Slavic branch. Ukrainian is the native language of Ukrainians. It is the official state language of Ukraine. The written script of Ukrainian uses the Cyrillic script. The Ukrainian language has a long history and is closely connected to the Old East Slavic of the early medieval state of Kyivan Rus. After Kyivan Rus and the Kingdom of Ruthenia lost their dominance the language developed in the form of the Ruthenian language. It is inspired by modern Ukraine and was also used in liturgical services. The Ukrainian language became common during the 17th century. It maintained major popularity in Western Ukraine, and the language was never banned over there.
About Icelandic Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Icelandic is the official North Germanic language. It is spoken by over 314,000 people in the world. Most of the native speakers are living in Iceland where it is considered the national language. However, this language is a little more conservative as compared to other German languages. This language features western Norwegian dialects. Even the four cases synthetic grammar is also unique. Surprisingly, the written form of this language is not changed much since the 13 century. Icelandic is also quite similar to Faroese especially the written form. It remains distinctive when compared with English and German. Apart from the native speakers in Iceland, this language is also popular in Denmark. Icelandic is spoken by 8000 people in Denmark and around 1400 in Canada.
