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Ukrainian
An East Slavic language spoken by about 40 million people — Ukraine's official language, written in Cyrillic and closely related to Russian and Belarusian.
If you've been searching for languages that start with U, you'll find 4 detailed languages below. We're not interested in giving you only a list of names — every entry on this page links to a full profile with the kind of detail you'd actually want to know.
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List of Languages That Start With U
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Urdu
An Indo-Aryan language and the national language of Pakistan — written in a flowing Perso-Arabic script, sharing colloquial Hindustani roots with Hindi but a literary Persian heritage.
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Uyghur
A Turkic language of Xinjiang in northwestern China — spoken by about 11 million Uyghurs, written in a modified Perso-Arabic script.
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Uzbek
A Turkic language and the most-spoken Turkic language after Turkish — Uzbekistan's official language, with about 34 million speakers.
About languages starting with U
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