Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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.
  
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
سلام
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
sorry
  
متاسف
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
65.00 million
  
17
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
persan
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Persian people
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Synthetic