Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
71
0
46
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National Language
Germany
Ukraine
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Albanian Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
922
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
hallo
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Danke
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
gute Nacht
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
guten Abend
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
guten Morgen
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
bitte
будь ласк
Sorry
Verzeihung
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Tschüs
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Podillian
Where They Speak
Switzerland
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Volynian
Where They Speak
Germany
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
820,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Texas German
Steppe
Where They Speak
Texas
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
6,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2815
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.39 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
101.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Deutsch
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
allemand
ukrainien
German Name
Deutsch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Germans
Ukrainians
Origin
6th Century AD
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Slavic
Branch
Western
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
926
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed German
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
de
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
ger
ukr
ISO 639 3
deu
ukr
ISO 639 6
deus
ukr
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
ukra1253
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic