Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
India
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
India
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
NA
  
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.
  
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Bengali Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Hallo
  
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
બાય (Bāya)
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Kathiyawadi
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Kharwa
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
50.00 million
  
22
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
goudjrati
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Gujaratis
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
15
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Old Gujarati
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Modern Gujarati
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
gu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
guj
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
guj
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
guj
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
guja1252
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available