Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Ukraine
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Japanese and Korean Languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
246
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2322
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
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
будь ласк
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Podillian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Volynian
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Yue
Steppe
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1015
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
chinois
ukrainien
German Name
Chinesisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Han
Ukrainians
Origin
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
126
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
chi
ukr
ISO 639 3
zho
ukr
ISO 639 6
zho
ukr
Glottocode
sini1245
ukra1253
Linguasphere
79-AAA
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic