Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
India
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
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
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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.
  
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Bengali and Assamese
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Oriya-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
sorry
  
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Baleswari
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Ganjami
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Kosli
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
33.00 million
  
34
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
oriya
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Oriya-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[ˈoɽia]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Odias
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
3 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Standard Odia
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
or
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
ori
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
ori
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
ori
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
macr1269
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available