Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
- 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
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Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Chinese.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 (Nín hǎo)
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
39.00 million
  
25
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
Not Available
  
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
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Not Available
  
French Name
chinois
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
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 Chinese
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic