1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Portugal
1.4 Second Language
South Africa
United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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.
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
Spanish and Galician Languages
1.10 Derived From
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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?
Como você está?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gronings
Brazilian Portuguese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
590,000.00204,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Low Saxon
European Portuguese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Portugal
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Limburgian
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Daman and Diu
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,300,000.004,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million231.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million216.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
6.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Português
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
portugais
5.3.5 German Name
Niederländisch
Portugiesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
5.5 Ethnicity
Dutch people
Portuguese people or portugueses
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Medieval Galician
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Portuguese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Portuguese
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