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 Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Cantonese and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Ukrainian language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and Ukrainian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Cantonese and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.