Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
University of Sarajevo
  
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.
  
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Serbian and Croatian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Zdravo
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Hvala
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Kako si?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Laku noc
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Dobro veće
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Dobar dan
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Dobro jutro
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
molim vas
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Zbogom
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Oprostite
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
11
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Kajkavian
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
3.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
3.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Not Available
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
bosniaque
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Bosnisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Bosniaks
  
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
  
Bosnian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
bs
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
bos
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
bos
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
bos
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
boss
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
bosn1245
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Dutch and Bosnian Speaking population
Dutch and Bosnian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Bosnian languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Bosnian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Bosnian language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Dutch and Bosnian on Dutch vs Bosnian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Dutch and Bosnian Language Codes
Dutch and Bosnian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dutch and Bosnian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.