Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Israel
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Israel
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Israel
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Africa, Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Poland
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Academy of the Hebrew Language
  
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.
  
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Arabic and Aramaic languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Aramaic Language
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hebrew-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Vowels
0
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Hebrew
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
שלום (Shalom)
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
תודה (Toda)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
בבקשה (bevekshah)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
סליחה! (Slicha)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
להתראות (Lehitraot)
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
בבקשה!
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Ashkenazi Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Israel
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Samaritan Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Israel, Palestine
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Yemenite Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Israel
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
9.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
4.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
5.60 million
  
27
Native Name
Nederlands
  
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Israeli, Ivrit
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
hébreu
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Hebräisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
1000 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Western
  
Canaanitic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Modern Hebrew
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Signed Hebrew
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
he
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
heb
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
heb
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
heb
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
hebr1246
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
12-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic