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
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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)
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
goedenavond
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
goedemorgen
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Netherlands
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
590,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Low Saxon
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Georgia, 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
Zimbabwe
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 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
6.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
zoulou
5.3.5 German Name
Niederländisch
Zulu-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
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
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
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
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