1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
dankjewel
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
goede Nacht
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
goedenavond
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
goedemorgen
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
alsjeblieft
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ik hou van jou
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
pardon
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
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
Not Available
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
Not Available
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 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
6.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Nederlands
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
singhalais
5.3.5 German Name
Niederländisch
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Dutch people
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Modern Sinhalese
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
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology