Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
France
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Bonjour
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
sorry
  
désolé
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Africa
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
Nederlands
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Français
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
français
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Romance
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Standard French
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic