Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Russia
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Nederlands
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Russki
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
russe
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Russians
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Western
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic