Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Ukraine
  
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 in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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)
  
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
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
39.00 million
  
32
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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