1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Iraq, Kurdistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
2.2 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
2.3 Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.4 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Middle East
2.5 Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.6 Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Not Available
2.7 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 vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
2.8 Similar To
German and English Languages
Farsi Language
2.9 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.4 Phonology
3.4.1 How Many Vowels
3.5.1 How Many Consonants
3.6 Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
3.7 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
3.8 Hard to Learn
3.8.1 Language Levels
4.3.4 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Tu çawa yî?
6.4 Good Night
6.5 Good Evening
6.6 Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
Nee-wa-rowt bash
6.7 Good Morning
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Ez te hez dikem
6.12 Excuse Me
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
Gronings
Northern Kurdish
7.1.1 Where They Speak
Netherlands
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
590,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
7.2 Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Central Kurdish
7.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
7.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
80000000
7.3 Dialect 3
Limburgian
Southern Kurdish
7.3.1 Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Eastern Iraq
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,300,000.003,000,000.00
1400
96000000
7.4 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
8.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
8.2 Speaking Population
8.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million21.00 million
0.13
873
8.3.1 Second Language Speakers
8.3.2 Native Name
Nederlands
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
8.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Not Available
8.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
kurde
8.3.5 German Name
8.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Not Available
8.5 Ethnicity
9 History
9.1 Origin
AD 450-500
16th century CE
9.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
9.2.1 Subgroup
9.2.2 Branch
9.3 Language Forms
9.3.1 Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Not Available
9.3.2 Standard Forms
9.3.3 Language Position
9.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Not Available
9.4 Scope
10 Code
10.1 ISO 639 1
10.2 ISO 639 2
10.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
10.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
10.3 ISO 639 3
10.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
10.5 Glottocode
10.6 Linguasphere
10.7 Types of Language
10.7.1 Language Type
10.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
10.7.3 Language Morphological Typology