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Ukrainian vs Chinese


Chinese vs Ukrainian


Countries

Countries
Ukraine   
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
5   
10

National Language
Ukraine   
China, Taiwan   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Republic of Brazil   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia   
Indonesia, Malaysia   

Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language   
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council   

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.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
33   
15
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
24   
19

How Many Consonants
22   
12
23   
13

Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille   
Chinese Characters and derivatives   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)   
您好 (Nín hǎo)   

Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)   
谢谢 (Xièxiè)   

How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)   
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)   

Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)   
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)   

Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)   
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)   

Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)   
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)   

Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)   
早安 (Zǎo ān)   

Please
будь ласк   
请 (Qǐng)   

Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)   
遗憾 (Yíhàn)   

Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)   
再见 (Zàijiàn)   

I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)   
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)   

Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)   
劳驾 (Láojià)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Podillian   
Mandarin   

Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
960,000,000.00   
1

Dialect 2
Volynian   
Wu   

Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn   
China, United States of America   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
80,000,000.00   
1

Dialect 3
Steppe   
Yue   

Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine   
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
60,000,000.00   
2

Total No. Of Dialects
15   
14
10   
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
39.00 million   
32
1,051.00 million   
2

Speaking Population
0.46 %   
30
16.00 %   
2

Native Speakers
39.00 million   
25
873.00 million   
1

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
178.00 million   
3

Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)   
中文 (zhōngwén)   

Alternative Names
Not Available   
Not Available   

French Name
ukrainien   
chinois   

German Name
Ukrainisch   
Chinesisch   

Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Ukrainians   
Han   

History

Origin
1561   
1250 BC   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Slavic   
Not Available   

Branch
Eastern   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian   
Standard Chinese   

Language Position
26   
22
1   
1

Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language   
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
uk   
zh   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ukr   
zho   

ISO 639 2/B
ukr   
chi   

ISO 639 3
ukr   
zho   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
ukra1253   
sini1245   

Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq   
79-AAA   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Analytic, Isolating   

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Ukrainian and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Ukrainian vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Ukrainian and Chinese language. History of Ukrainian language states that this language originated in 1561 whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC. 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 Ukrainian and Chinese Language History.

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

Ukrainian vs Chinese Difficulty

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

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