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
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
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)
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
Not Available
Dialect 3
Limburgian
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
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
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mode1257
mace1250
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
53-AAA-ha
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic