Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
East Asia, European Union
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia, Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Akademio de Esperanto
  
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 most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Halo
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Dankon
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Kiel vi sanas?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Bonan nokton
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Bonan vesperon
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Bonan posttagmezon
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Bonan matenon
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Mi petas
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Mi bedaŭras!
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Ĝis poste
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Mi amas vin
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Pardonu!
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Not present
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Not present
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Not present
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
2.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
0.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Nederlands
  
Esperanto
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
espéranto
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Esperanto
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[espeˈranto]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
1887
  
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
  
Proto-Esperanto
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Esperanto
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Signuno
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
eo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
epo
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
epo
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
epo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
espe1235
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
51-AAB-da
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Constructed
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Dutch and Esperanto Speaking population
Dutch and Esperanto speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Esperanto languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Esperanto Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Esperanto language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Dutch and Esperanto on Dutch vs Esperanto where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Dutch and Esperanto Language Codes
Dutch and Esperanto language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dutch and Esperanto Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.