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
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Not Available
Dialect 3
Limburgian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
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
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mode1257
russ1263
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
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.