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Russian vs Dutch


Countries

Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname   
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   

Total No. Of Countries
6   
9
4   
11

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

Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
26   
8
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
10   
7

How Many Consonants
21   
11
21   
11

Scripts
Latin   
Cyrillic   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Gronings   
Doukhobor Russian   

Where They Speak
Netherlands   
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   

How Many People Speak
590,000.00   
32
30,000.00   
99+

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   

Total No. Of Dialects
7   
7
13   
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
28.00 million   
38
276.00 million   
6

Speaking Population
0.32 %   
38
2.33 %   
9

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   

History

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   

Language Position
48   
35
7   
7

Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)   
Signed Russian   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

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   

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Dutch and Russian Language History

Comparison of Dutch vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Dutch and Russian language. History of Dutch language states that this language originated in AD 450-500 whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. 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 Dutch and Russian Language History.

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Dutch and Russian 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 Dutch and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Russian language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Dutch vs Russian Difficulty

The Dutch vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch Alphabets and Russian 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 Dutch and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.

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