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Chinese vs Ukrainian


Countries

Countries
Ukraine  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
5  
10

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

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

Alphabets
33  
15
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
24  
19

How Many Consonants
22  
12
23  
13

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
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
88 weeks  
13

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

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

Total No. Of Dialects
15  
14
10  
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
39.00 million  
32
1,051.00 million  
2

Speaking Population
0.46 %  
30
16.00 %  
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  

History

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  

Language Position
26  
22
1  
1

Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Ukrainian and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Ukrainian vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Ukrainian and Chinese language. History of Ukrainian language states that this language originated in 1561 whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Ukrainian and Chinese Language History.

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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.

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