Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
sorry
  
آسف
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Nederlands
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
arabe
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Arabs
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Western
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic