1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall) ▶
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) ▶
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) ▶
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) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
Rank: 38 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.32 %
Rank: 38 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million
Rank: 35 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
Rank: 25 (Overall) ▶
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
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