Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Ukraine
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
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
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
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Volynian
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Rivne, Volyn
Dialect 3
Limburgian
Steppe
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Modern Ukrainian
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
mode1257
ukra1253
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Dutch and Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Ukrainian language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Dutch vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch Alphabets and Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.