Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Moldova, Romania
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Kazakhstan, Russia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
  
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.
  
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Romanian.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
alo
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
multumesc
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
ce mai faci?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
noapte Buna
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
buna Seara
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
buna Ziua
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
bună Dimineața
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Vă Rog
  
Sorry
sorry
  
scuze
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
La revedere
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Te iubesc
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Scuza-Ma
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Aromanian
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Megleno-Romanian
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Istro-Romanian
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
24.00 million
  
33
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
4.00 million
  
30
Native Name
Nederlands
  
Română
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
roumain; moldave
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Rumänisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[roˈmɨnə]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Romanians
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
1521
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Proto-Romanian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Romanian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Romanian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
ro
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
ron
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
rum
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
ron
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
roma1327
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
51-AAD-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Synthetic