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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Norway
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
61
Bhojpuri
0 46
1.3 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Norway
1.4 Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Nynorsk
1.7 Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Norwegian Language Council
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.
  • Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
  • Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2629
Irish
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
69
Hebrew
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2120
German
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
64
Bengali
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
Cebuano
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Hallo
hallo
3.2 Thank You
dankjewel
takk
3.3 How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
hvordan har du det?
3.4 Good Night
goede Nacht
god natt
3.5 Good Evening
goedenavond
god kveld
3.6 Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
god ettermiddag
3.7 Good Morning
goedemorgen
god morgen
3.8 Please
alsjeblieft
Vær så snill
3.9 Sorry
sorry
unnskyld
3.10 Bye
vaarwel
ha det
3.11 I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Jeg Elsker Deg
3.12 Excuse Me
pardon
unnskyld meg
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gronings
Jamtlandic
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Netherlands
Jamtland,Harjedalen
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
590,000.0030,000.00
Macedonian
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Sognamål
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Sogn
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00NA
Dzongkha
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Limburgian
Hallingmål-Valdris
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Hallingdal, Valdres
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00NA
Romanian
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
719
Sanskrit
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million5.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.32 %NA
Xhosa
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million5.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
6.00 millionNA
Finnish
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Nederlands
Norsk
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Norsk
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
5.3.5 German Name
Niederländisch
Nynorsk
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian) [nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
5.5 Ethnicity
Dutch people
Norwegians
6 History
6.1 Origin
AD 450-500
c. 1300 AD
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Germanic
Germanic
6.2.2 Branch
Western
Northern (Scandinavian)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Nynorsk, Bokmål
6.3.3 Language Position
48NA
Chinese
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Norwegian
6.4 Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
nl
no
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
nld
nor
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
dut
nor
7.3 ISO 639 3
nld
nor
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
mode1257
norw1258
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Historical
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional