Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
61
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Ukraine
Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Europe
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2122
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hallo
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
dankjewel
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
goede Nacht
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
goedenavond
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
goedemorgen
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
alsjeblieft
будь ласк
Sorry
sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
vaarwel
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
pardon
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Gronings
Podillian
Where They Speak
Netherlands
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
590,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Volynian
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Steppe
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
715
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
28.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %0.46 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
22.00 million39.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nederlands
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
ukrainien
German Name
Niederländisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Ukrainians
Origin
AD 450-500
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Slavic
Branch
Western
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
4826
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
nl
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
dut
ukr
ISO 639 3
nld
ukr
ISO 639 6
nld
ukr
Glottocode
mode1257
ukra1253
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic