Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
1,051.00 million
  
2
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
Nederlands
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Not Available
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
chinois
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Han
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan 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
  
Standard Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating