Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
91.00 million
  
16
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
Nederlands
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
46-EBA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating