Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
India, No official status
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
India
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Maithili and Magahi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bhojpuri-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
प्रणाम (prannam)
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
प्रणाम (prannam)
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Caribbean Hindustani
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Fiji Hindi
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Tharu Bhojpuri
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
40.00 million
  
31
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
40.00 million
  
24
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
bhojpuri
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Bhojpuri
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
19th 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
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Bhojpuri
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
bho
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
bho
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
bho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
bhoj1246
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
59-AAF-sa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available