1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
South Africa
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Dutch Language
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gronings
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Netherlands
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
590,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Limburgian
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Namibia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million7.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
6.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
afrikaans
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology