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
  
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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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
  
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French Name
ukrainien
  
chinois
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
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Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Han
  
Origin
1561
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
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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
  
Ukrainian and Chinese 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 Ukrainian and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Chinese language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Chinese Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Chinese 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 Ukrainian and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.