Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
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.
  
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Old Norse Language
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Mange tak
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
God nat
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
God aften
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
God eftermiddag
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
God morgen
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Please
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Undskyld!
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Farvel
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Jeg elsker dig
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Undskyld mig
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Scanian
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Sweden
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Jutlandic
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Denmark
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Bornholmsk
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Island of Bornholm
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
5.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
5.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
dansk
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
danois
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Dänisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Danish people or Danes
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
c. 1100 AD
  
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
  
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Rigsdansk
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Signed Danish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
da
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
dan
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
dan
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
dan
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
dani1284
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional