Countries
Ukraine
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
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 in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
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
Dialect 1
Podillian
Swiss German
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Volynian
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Germany
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Steppe
Texas German
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Texas
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Origin
1561
6th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
deus
Glottocode
ukra1253
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Ukrainian and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and German language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs German Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.
