Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
India, Manipur
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Meithei Language is currently classified as a vulnerable language by UNESCO.
- The oldest document in Methei language was dated back in 8th century were inscriptions on the copper plate.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Meithei-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Bengali
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Khurumjari
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Yamna nungaijare
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Athengba Ahing
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Not Available
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Nongale haugatl
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Chanbiduna
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Saobiganu
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Chatcharage
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Eina nangbu nungsi
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Loi
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Burma, Laos
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Pangal
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Bangladesh, India
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Meithei proper
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
1,250,000.00
  
19
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
1.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
1.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
মৈইতৈইলোন
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
Meithei
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Meithei
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Meithei people
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
1700
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Standard Meithei
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
mni
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
mni
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
mni
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
mani1292
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
omp
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available