Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
South Africa
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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English-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Hello
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Thank you
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
How are you?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Good Night
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Good Evening
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Good Afternoon
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Good Morning
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Please
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Sorry
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Bye
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
I love you
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Excuse Me
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
American English
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Hiberno-English
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
4,500,000.00
  
15
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Welsh English
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
1,200.00 million
  
1
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
400.00 million
  
3
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
400.00 million
  
1
Native Name
Nederlands
  
English
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Not Available
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
anglais
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Englisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
5th Century 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 English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Standard English
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Signed English
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
en
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
eng
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
eng
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
eng
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
engs
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
stan1293
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
52-ABA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic