1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
South Africa
Lesotho, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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?
Unjani
3.4 Good Night
goede Nacht
Ulale kakuhle
3.5 Good Evening
goedenavond
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
vaarwel
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Ndiyakuthanda
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
South Africa
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
South Africa
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 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
6.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
xhosa
5.3.5 German Name
Niederländisch
Xhosa-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Dutch people
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Xhosa
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology