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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

6
Rank: 9 (Overall)
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0 46

1.3 National Language

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname

1.4 Second Language

South Africa

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe, North America, South America

1.6 Minority Language

France, Germany, Indonesia

1.7 Regulated By

Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

German and English Languages

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Hallo

3.2 Thank You

dankjewel

3.3 How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?

3.4 Good Night

goede Nacht

3.5 Good Evening

goedenavond

3.6 Good Afternoon

goedemiddag

3.7 Good Morning

goedemorgen

3.8 Please

alsjeblieft

3.9 Sorry

sorry

3.10 Bye

vaarwel

3.11 I Love You

Ik hou van jou

3.12 Excuse Me

pardon

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Gronings

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Netherlands

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

590,000.00
Rank: 32 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Low Saxon

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

4,000,000.00
Rank: 16 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Limburgian

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

1,300,000.00
Rank: 18 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

7
Rank: 7 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

28.00 million
Rank: 38 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.32 %
Rank: 38 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

22.00 million
Rank: 35 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

6.00 million
Rank: 25 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Nederlands

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands

5.3.4 French Name

néerlandais; flamand

5.3.5 German Name

Niederländisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]

5.5 Ethnicity

Dutch people

6 History

6.1 Origin

AD 450-500

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Germanic

6.2.2 Branch

Western

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Standard Dutch

6.3.3 Language Position

48
Rank: 35 (Overall)
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1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

nl

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

nld

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

dut

7.3 ISO 639 3

nld

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

mode1257

7.6 Linguasphere

52-ACB-a

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Historical

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Dutch

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Dutch Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Dutch Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Dutch. Dutch phonology gives Dutch vowels and Dutch consonants. There are 6 vowels and 21 consonants in Dutch language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Dutch is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Dutch language is given in detail in this section.

All Dutch countries

Want to explore all Dutch countries? About Dutch language serves you with all Dutch Speaking Countries. Countries that use Dutch as official language are called as Dutch countries.

  • Countries that use Dutch as their National Language are: Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Dutch as second language are: South Africa.

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Learn Dutch greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Dutch Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Dutch language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Dutch language.Learn Dutch greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Hallo
  • Thank you: dankjewel
  • Good Morning: goedemorgen
  • Good Evening: goedenavond
  • Good Afternoon: goedemiddag

All Dutch Language Codes

Get to know all Dutch language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Dutch Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.