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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

6
Rank: 9 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname

1.4 Second Language

South Africa

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe, North America, South America

1.6 Minority Language

France, Germany, Indonesia

1.7 Regulated By

Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)

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.

1.9 Similar To

German and English Languages

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Hallo

3.2 Thank You

dankjewel

3.3 How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?

3.4 Good Night

goede Nacht

3.5 Good Evening

goedenavond

3.6 Good Afternoon

goedemiddag

3.7 Good Morning

goedemorgen

3.8 Please

alsjeblieft

3.9 Sorry

sorry

3.10 Bye

vaarwel

3.11 I Love You

Ik hou van jou

3.12 Excuse Me

pardon

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Gronings

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Netherlands

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

590,000.00
Rank: 32 (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Low Saxon

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

4,000,000.00
Rank: 16 (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Limburgian

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

1,300,000.00
Rank: 18 (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

7
Rank: 7 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

28.00 million
Rank: 38 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.32 %
Rank: 38 (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

22.00 million
Rank: 35 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

6.00 million
Rank: 25 (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Nederlands

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands

5.3.4 French Name

néerlandais; flamand

5.3.5 German Name

Niederländisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]

5.5 Ethnicity

Dutch people

6 History

6.1 Origin

AD 450-500

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Germanic

6.2.2 Branch

Western

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Standard Dutch

6.3.3 Language Position

48
Rank: 35 (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

nl

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

nld

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

dut

7.3 ISO 639 3

nld

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

mode1257

7.6 Linguasphere

52-ACB-a

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Historical

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Origin of Dutch language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Dutch language is one of the Most Spoken Languages. The origin of Dutch language states that it was put to use in AD 450-500. The history of Dutch language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Dutch Language History.The evolution of Dutch language began with early forms such as Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch. Standard Dutch is the standard form of Dutch language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Dutch Language.

Dutch population

Dutch population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Dutch language. Dutch language is spoken by 28.00 million people in the world. Most of the Dutch population lies in the Dutch Speaking Countries. Dutch language is spoken as first language by 22.00 million people and as second language by about 6.00 million people. Get to know Dutch speaking population in detail.

Dutch writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Dutch writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Dutch language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Dutch language. Learn more about . 

Information about Dutch language

Check out all the information about Dutch language here. You may find it interesting to learn Dutch Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Dutch Speaking Countries, Dutch speaking continents and Dutch Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Dutch countries knowing common Dutch Greetings will help you in communicating with Dutch people.