Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2833
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2022
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
106
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
谢谢
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
你好吗？
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
晚安
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
晚上好
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
下午好
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
早上好
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
请
будь ласк
Sorry
遗憾
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
再见
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
我爱你
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
原谅我
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Podillian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Volynian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Steppe
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
cantonais
ukrainien
German Name
Kantonesisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Ukrainians
Origin
17th century
1561
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
126
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
yue
ukr
ISO 639 3
No data available
ukr
ISO 639 6
yue
ukr
Glottocode
cant1236
ukra1253
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic