Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Malta
  
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
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
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.
  
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
0.52 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Malti
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
maltais
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Maltese
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Western
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Maltese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Dutch and Maltese Speaking population
Dutch and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maltese language is Not Available. 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 Maltese on Dutch vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Dutch and Maltese Language Codes
Dutch and Maltese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dutch and Maltese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.