Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
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.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
7.80 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Western
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available