Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Armenian Highland
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Greek
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Armenian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Armenian manuscript
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Բարեւ (Barev)
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Բարի օր (Bari or)
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
կներեք (knerek’)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Ց'տեսություն
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Eastern Armenian
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Western Armenian
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Not Applicable
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Not Applicable
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
6.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
6.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
arménien
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Armenisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Armenians
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
late 5th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
hy
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
hye
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
arm
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
hye
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
arme1241
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
57-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic