1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Estonia, European Union
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Estonia, Gambia
1.4 Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Europe
1.6 Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Institute of the Estonian Language
1.8 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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
Finnish
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
kuidas sul läheb
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
goedemorgen
Tere hommikust
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ik hou van jou
ma armastan sind
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Netherlands
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
590,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Georgia, South Estonia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million1.10 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million0.95 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Eesti keel
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
estonien
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Estonian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology