Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
晚安
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
请
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
再见
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Not Available
  
French Name
Not Available
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
17th century
  
1561
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Cantonese and Ukrainian Speaking population
Cantonese and Ukrainian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Ukrainian languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Ukrainian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Ukrainian language is 0.46 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Cantonese and Ukrainian on Cantonese vs Ukrainian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Ukrainian Language Codes
Cantonese and Ukrainian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Ukrainian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.