Countries
Ukraine
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ukraine
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Hawaii
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3328
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2220
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
您好
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
谢谢
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
你好吗？
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
晚安
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
下午好
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
早上好
Please
будь ласк
请
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
遗憾
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
再见
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
我爱你
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Podillian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Volynian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
44,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Steppe
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
42,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
153
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.46 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
39.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Ukrayins'ka Mova
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
ukrainien
cantonais
German Name
Ukrainisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Han Chinese
Origin
1561
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
261
1
120
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Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
uk
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
yue
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
yue
ISO 639 3
ukr
No data available
ISO 639 6
ukr
yue
Glottocode
ukra1253
cant1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
-