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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  
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Alphabets

Alphabets in
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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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