Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Hai
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
sila
  
Sorry
sorry
  
maaf
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Nederlands
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Not Available
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
malais
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Dutch and Malaysian Speaking population
Dutch and Malaysian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Malaysian languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Malaysian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 %. 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 Malaysian on Dutch vs Malaysian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Dutch and Malaysian Language Codes
Dutch and Malaysian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dutch and Malaysian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.