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Countries
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Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname 0

Total No. Of Countries
6 9

National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname 0

Second Language
South Africa 0

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America 0

Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia 0

Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union) 0

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.
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Similar To
German and English Languages 0

Derived From
Not Available 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
26 8

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
6 3

How Many Consonants
21 11

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal 0

Hard to Learn
0

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks 6

Greetings
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Hello
Hallo 0

Thank You
dankjewel 0

How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je? 0

Good Night
goede Nacht 0

Good Evening
goedenavond 0

Good Afternoon
goedemiddag 0

Good Morning
goedemorgen 0

Please
alsjeblieft 0

Sorry
sorry 0

Bye
vaarwel 0

I Love You
Ik hou van jou 0

Excuse Me
pardon 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Gronings 0

Where They Speak
Netherlands 0

How Many People Speak
590,000.00 32

Dialect 2
Low Saxon 0

Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands 0

How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00 16

Dialect 3
Limburgian 0

Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands 0

How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00 18

Total No. Of Dialects
7 7

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
28.00 million 38

Speaking Population
0.32 % 38

Native Speakers
22.00 million 35

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million 25

Native Name
Nederlands 0

Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands 0

French Name
néerlandais; flamand 0

German Name
Niederländisch 0

Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts] 0

Ethnicity
Dutch people 0

History
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Origin
AD 450-500 0

Language Family
Indo-European Family 0

Subgroup
Germanic 0

Branch
Western 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch 0

Standard Forms
Standard Dutch 0

Language Position
48 35

Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren) 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
nl 0

ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
nld 0

ISO 639 2/B
dut 0

ISO 639 3
nld 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
mode1257 0

Linguasphere
52-ACB-a 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Historical 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb 0

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic 0

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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.

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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.

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