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Ukrainian and German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
Ukraine  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
1  
14

National Language
Germany  
Ukraine  

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia  

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
  • 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  
Russian and Belarusian Languages  

Derived From
Albanian Languages  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26  
8
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
6  
3

How Many Consonants
9  
1
22  
12

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
9
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)  

Thank You
Danke  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)  

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)  

Good Night
gute Nacht  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)  

Good Evening
guten Abend  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)  

Good Afternoon
guten Tag  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)  

Good Morning
guten Morgen  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)  

Please
bitte  
будь ласк  

Sorry
Verzeihung  
вибачте (vybachte)  

Bye
Tschüs  
до побачення (do pobachennya)  

I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)  

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Podillian  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
18
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Volynian  

Where They Speak
Germany  
Rivne, Volyn  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Steppe  

Where They Speak
Texas  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
15  
14

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
39.00 million  
32

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
0.46 %  
30

Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
39.00 million  
25

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
Not Available  

Native Name
Deutsch  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)  

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco  
Not Available  

French Name
allemand  
ukrainien  

German Name
Deutsch  
Ukrainisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]  

Ethnicity
Germans  
Ukrainians  

History

Origin
6th Century AD  
1561  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Slavic  

Branch
Western  
Eastern  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian  

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  
Modern Ukrainian  

Language Position
9  
9
26  
22

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Ukrainian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
de  
uk  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu  
ukr  

ISO 639 2/B
ger  
ukr  

ISO 639 3
deu  
ukr  

ISO 639 6
deus  
Not Available  

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
ukra1253  

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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All German and Ukrainian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Ukrainian dialects. Various dialects of German and Ukrainian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Ukrainian Dialects are spoken in different Ukrainian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Ukrainian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Ukrainian dialects include: Podillian , Volynian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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German and Ukrainian Speaking population

German and Ukrainian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Ukrainian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Ukrainian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % 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 German and Ukrainian on German vs Ukrainian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Ukrainian Language Codes

German and Ukrainian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Ukrainian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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