Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
India, Pakistan
  
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
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Hindi and Urdu Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kashmiri-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Assalām ‘alaikum
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Not Available
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Hach t'ochoktiya
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Hach ch'i
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
sorry
  
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Khuda hāfiz
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Kashtawari
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Poguli
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Pogul and Paristan valleys
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Rambani
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
5.60 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
5.42 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
kashmiri
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Kaschmiri
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[kəːʃur]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Kashmiris or koshur
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
12th Century
  
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
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Kashmiri
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
ks
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
kas
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
kas
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
kas
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
kash1277
  
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