Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
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.
  
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Kartli
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
4.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Georgians
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Southern
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Modern Georgian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic