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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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