Countries
Ukraine
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
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Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
будь ласк
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
1,051.00 million
  
2
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
chinois
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Han
  
Origin
1561
  
1250 BC
  
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 Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating