Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
China, Mongolia
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
China, Mongolia
  
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
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
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.
  
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Turkish Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Ordos Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
5.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
5.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Not Available
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
mongol
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Mongolisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
1224-1225
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Mongolic family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Mongolian
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
mn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
mon
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
mon
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
mon
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
mong1331
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
part of 44-BAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available