1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Haiti
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Haiti
1.4 Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Central America, North America
1.6 Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Cuba
1.7 Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
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.
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
French Language
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
Not Available
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?
Kijan ou yé?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
Bon apre-midi
3.7 Good Morning
goedemorgen
Bon apre-midi
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Mwen renmen w
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gronings
Northern Haitian Creole
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
590,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Central Haitian Creole
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Port-au-Prince
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Limburgian
Southern Haitian Creole
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Cayes
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 million9.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million9.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Nederlands
Kreyòl ayisyen
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
haïtien; créole haïtien
5.3.5 German Name
Niederländisch
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European 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
Standard Dutch
Haitian Creole
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Not Available
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
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