1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Bulgaria, European Union
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Bulgaria
1.4 Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Africa, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
Macedonian language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
Hallo
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
3.2 Thank You
dankjewel
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
3.3 How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Как си? (Kak si?)
3.4 Good Night
goede Nacht
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
3.5 Good Evening
goedenavond
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
3.6 Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
3.7 Good Morning
goedemorgen
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
3.10 Bye
vaarwel
Довиждане (Doviždane)
3.11 I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Обичам те (Običam te)
3.12 Excuse Me
pardon
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gronings
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
590,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Bulgaria
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Bulgaria
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 million7.80 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million7.80 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Nederlands
български (bãlgarski)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Balgarski
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
bulgare
5.3.5 German Name
Niederländisch
Bulgarisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Dutch people
Not Available
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
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Standard Bulgarian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Bulgarian Sign Language
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-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology