Countries
Ukraine
Hong Kong, Macau
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
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Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
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
Dialect 2
Volynian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Steppe
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Hong Kong
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Not Available
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
ukrainien
Not Available
German Name
Ukrainisch
Not Available
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Not Available
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Not Available
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 1
uk
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
Not Available
ISO 639 3
ukr
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
ukra1253
cant1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
Ukrainian and Cantonese 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 Ukrainian and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Cantonese language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Cantonese 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 Ukrainian and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.