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Ukrainian vs Chinese


Countries

Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan   
Ukraine   

Total No. Of Countries
5   
10
1   
14

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
Not Available   
Russian and Belarusian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Chinese.jpg#200   
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
26   
8
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
24   
19
6   
3

How Many Consonants
23   
13
22   
12

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives   
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks   
13
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

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   

Total No. Of Dialects
10   
10
15   
14

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million   
2
39.00 million   
32

Speaking Population
16.00 %   
2
0.46 %   
30

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
Not Available   
Not Available   

French Name
chinois   
ukrainien   

German Name
Chinesisch   
Ukrainisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]   

Ethnicity
Han   
Ukrainians   

History

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   

Language Position
1   
1
26   
22

Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))   
Ukrainian Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

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   

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Chinese and Ukrainian Language History

Comparison of Chinese vs Ukrainian language history gives us differences between origin of Chinese and Ukrainian language. History of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC whereas history of Ukrainian language states that this language originated in 1561. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Chinese and Ukrainian Language History.

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Chinese 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 Chinese and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Ukrainian language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Chinese vs Ukrainian Difficulty

The Chinese vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese 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 Chinese and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.

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