Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Philippines
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Filipinos
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia, Australia
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
  
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 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tagalog-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Baybayin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Kamusta
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Salamat po
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Kamusta ka na?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Magandang gabi
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Magandang gabi po
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Magandang hapon po
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Magandang umaga po
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
pakiusap
  
Sorry
sorry
  
pinagsisisihan
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Paálam
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Iniibig kita
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Batangas Tagalog
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Batangas, Gabon
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Bisalog
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Filipino
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
73.00 million
  
24
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
28.00 million
  
29
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
45.00 million
  
13
Native Name
Nederlands
  
Tagalog
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Filipino, Pilipino
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
tagalog
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Tagalog
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Tagalog people
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
1593
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Filipino
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
t1
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
tgl
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
tgl
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
tg1
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
taga1269
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
31-CKA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available