Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Macedonia
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
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.
  
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
жал (žal)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Чао (Čao)
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Debar
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Galičnik
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
2.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
macédonien
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Makedonisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Macedonians
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
2200 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Western
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Macedonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
mk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
mac
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
mace1250
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
53-AAA-ha
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic