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Ukrainian vs 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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German and Ukrainian Language History

Comparison of German vs Ukrainian language history gives us differences between origin of German and Ukrainian language. History of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD 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 German and Ukrainian Language History.

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

German vs Ukrainian Difficulty

The German vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.

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