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Ukrainian and German


German and Ukrainian


Countries

Countries
Ukraine   
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
7   
8

National Language
Ukraine   
Germany   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
North Dakota, United States of America   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Europe   

Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia   
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia   

Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language   
Council for German Orthography   

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.
  
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  

Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages   
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Albanian Languages   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
German-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
33   
15
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
10   
7

How Many Consonants
22   
12
9   
1

Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
30 weeks   
9

Greetings

Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)   
hallo   

Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)   
Danke   

How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)   
Wie geht es dir?   

Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)   
gute Nacht   

Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)   
guten Abend   

Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)   
guten Tag   

Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)   
guten Morgen   

Please
будь ласк   
bitte   

Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)   
Verzeihung   

Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)   
Tschüs   

I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)   
Ich liebe dich   

Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)   
Entschuldigung   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Podillian   
Swiss German   

Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia   
Switzerland   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
4,500,000.00   
18

Dialect 2
Volynian   
Swabian German   

Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn   
Germany   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
820,000.00   
26

Dialect 3
Steppe   
Texas German   

Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine   
Texas   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
6,000.00   
35

Total No. Of Dialects
15   
14
28   
23

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
39.00 million   
32
229.00 million   
8

Speaking Population
0.46 %   
30
1.39 %   
12

Native Speakers
39.00 million   
25
101.00 million   
10

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
128.00 million   
5

Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)   
Deutsch   

Alternative Names
Not Available   
Deutsch, Tedesco   

French Name
ukrainien   
allemand   

German Name
Ukrainisch   
Deutsch   

Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]   
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]   

Ethnicity
Ukrainians   
Germans   

History

Origin
1561   
6th Century AD   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Slavic   
Germanic   

Branch
Eastern   
Western   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian   
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German   

Language Position
26   
22
9   
9

Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language   
Signed German   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
uk   
de   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ukr   
deu   

ISO 639 2/B
ukr   
ger   

ISO 639 3
ukr   
deu   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
deus   

Glottocode
ukra1253   
high1287, uppe1397   

Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq   
52-ACB–dl & -dm   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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All Ukrainian and German Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Ukrainian and German dialects. Various dialects of Ukrainian and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Ukrainian are spoken in different Ukrainian Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Ukrainian vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Ukrainian dialects include: Podillian, Volynian. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Ukrainian and German Speaking population

Ukrainian and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Ukrainian and German languages can be compared. The total count of Ukrainian and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Ukrainian language is 0.46 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Ukrainian and German on Ukrainian vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Ukrainian and German Language Codes

Ukrainian and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Ukrainian and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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