Dutch and Russian Speaking countries

Dutch vs Russian Countries

Comparing Dutch vs Russian countries gives you idea about number of countries that speak Dutch and Russian languages.

So we find that, total number of countries where Dutch is official language is 6 whereas total number of countries where Russian is official language is 4

Find if Dutch and Russian are Most Spoken Languages. Comparison of Dutch and Russian speaking countries will give you the presence of Dutch and Russian languages in different countries. Along with Dutch vs Russian countries, you can also compare Dutch vs Russian.

Dutch and Russian as Minority Language

In Dutch and Russian speaking countries you will get the countries which have Dutch and Russian as minority language. The language which is spoken by minority of population in the country is called as minority language.

If you want to compare Dutch and Russian dialects, then you can go to Dutch vs Russian Dialects. Some of the official languages are also considered as minority languages.

Dutch and Russian Regulators

Dutch and Russian speaking countries provide you Dutch and Russian regulators which are the official organizations that regulate them. Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union) regulates Dutch language.Russian is regulated by Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Also get to learn, Dutch and Russian Language History.

Dutch and Russian Continents

Thinking about Dutch and Russian continents in which Dutch and Russian speaking countries are present. Check out more information on Dutch and Russian. Most of the Dutch speaking countries lie in Asia, Europe, North America, South America. While Russian speaking countries lie in Asia, Europe. Continentwise, most of the languages belong to Asian Languages and African Languages. It's always fun to know about interesting facts of any language, so lets discuss about unknown facts of Dutch and Russian languages:

Dutch 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.

Russian 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.

The Dutch language was derived from and is similar to German and English Languages whereas Dutch language is similar to Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages and derived from Proto-Slavic Vocabulary.