1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
1.4 Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Not Available
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language
1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Wakadini zvako?
3.4 Good Night
goede Nacht
Urare zvakanaka
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
alsjeblieft
Ndinokumbirawo
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
590,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
southern Zimbabwe
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million8.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
shona
5.3.5 German Name
Niederländisch
Schona-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Dutch people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
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6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Not Available
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology