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Cantonese vs Ukrainian


Ukrainian vs Cantonese


Countries

Countries
Hong Kong, Macau  
Ukraine  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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

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

Alphabets
28  
10
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
6  
3

How Many Consonants
20  
10
22  
12

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
10  
8
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
19
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Guangzhou  
Podillian  

Where They Speak
outside mainland China  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia  

How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00  
13
42,000,000.00  
17

Dialect 2
Xiguan  
Volynian  

Where They Speak
Hong Kong  
Rivne, Volyn  

How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00  
11
44,000,000.00  
15

Dialect 3
Hong Kong  
Steppe  

Where They Speak
Hong Kong  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine  

How Many People Speak
70,000,000.00  
10
42,000,000.00  
14

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
15  
14

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
60.00 million  
27
39.00 million  
32

Speaking Population
16.00 %  
2
0.46 %  
32

Native Speakers
52.00 million  
21
39.00 million  
25

Second Language Speakers
71.00 million  
15
30.00 million  
26

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  

History

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
1  
1
26  
24

Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese  
Ukrainian Sign Language  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Cantonese and Ukrainian Language History

Comparison of Cantonese vs Ukrainian language history gives us differences between origin of Cantonese and Ukrainian language. History of Cantonese language states that this language originated in 17th century whereas history of Ukrainian language states that this language originated in 1561. 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 Cantonese and Ukrainian Language History.

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Cantonese and Ukrainian 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 Cantonese and Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Ukrainian language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Cantonese vs Ukrainian Difficulty

The Cantonese vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese Alphabets and Ukrainian 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 Cantonese and Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.

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