1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Madagascar
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
1.4 Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Not Available
1.8 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.
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Manao ahoana!
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
goedenavond
Manao ahoana e
3.6 Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
Manao ahoana e
3.7 Good Morning
goedemorgen
Maraina tsara
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Tiako ianao.
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gronings
Eastern Malagasy
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
590,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Western Malagasy
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Sakalava
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 millionNA
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million18.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Nederlands
Fiteny Malagasy
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Malagasy Sign Language
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
malgache
5.3.5 German Name
Niederländisch
Malagassi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Dutch people
Malagasy people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
standard Malagasy
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Verb-Object-Subject
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology