Countries
Countries
Ukraine
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
1
14
2
13
National Language
Ukraine
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Hawaii
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
33
15
28
10
Phonology
How Many Vowels
6
3
8
5
How Many Consonants
22
12
20
10
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
6
5
10
8
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
11
88 weeks
13
Greetings
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
您好
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
谢谢
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
你好吗？
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
晚安
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
下午好
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
早上好
Please
будь ласк
请
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
遗憾
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
再见
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
我爱你
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
原谅我
Dialects
Dialect 1
Podillian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
outside mainland China
Dialect 2
Volynian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Steppe
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Hong Kong
Total No. Of Dialects
15
14
3
3
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
32
60.00 million
27
Speaking Population
0.46 %
30
16.00 %
2
Native Speakers
39.00 million
25
52.00 million
21
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Not Available
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
ukrainien
Not Available
German Name
Ukrainisch
Not Available
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Not Available
History
Origin
1561
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Not Available
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
26
22
Not Available
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Not Available
Code
ISO 639 1
uk
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
Not Available
ISO 639 3
ukr
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
ukra1253
cant1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
