1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Russia
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
France, Germany, Indonesia
1.7 Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
German and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Hallo
3.2 Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
dankjewel
3.3 How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
hoe gaat het met je?
3.4 Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
goede Nacht
3.5 Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
goedenavond
3.6 Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
goedemiddag
3.7 Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
goedemorgen
3.8 Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
alsjeblieft
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
vaarwel
3.11 I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Ik hou van jou
3.12 Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
pardon
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Gronings
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Netherlands
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Olonets
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Novgorod
Belgium, Netherlands
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,300,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
276.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
166.00 million22.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
110.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Russki
Hollands, Nederlands
5.3.4 French Name
russe
néerlandais; flamand
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Dutch
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic