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
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
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)
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
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
Second Language Speakers
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
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 6
deus
Not Available
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
ukra1253
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
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.
