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
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Govenment of Goa
  
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.
  
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Marathi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Namaskar
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Dev Borem Korum
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
kaso assa?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Chike
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Maf kor
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Adeus
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
hav tujo mog korta.
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
upkar korxi
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Antruz
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Goa
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Not present
  
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
7.40 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
7.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
Kōṅkaṇī
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
konkani
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Konkani
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
kõkɳi
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Konkanis
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
1209 A.D.
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Kokani
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
kok
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
kok
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
kok
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
goan1235
  
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
  
Dutch and Konkani Speaking population
Dutch and Konkani speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Konkani languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Konkani Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Konkani language is 0.11 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Dutch and Konkani on Dutch vs Konkani where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Dutch and Konkani Language Codes
Dutch and Konkani language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dutch and Konkani Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.