1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
1.4 Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Europe
1.6 Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
1.7 Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
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
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
dankjewel
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
3.3 How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Како си? (Kako si?)
3.4 Good Night
goede Nacht
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
3.5 Good Evening
goedenavond
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
3.6 Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
3.7 Good Morning
goedemorgen
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
3.8 Please
alsjeblieft
Молим (Molim)
3.9 Sorry
sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
3.10 Bye
vaarwel
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
3.11 I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Волим те (Volim te)
3.12 Excuse Me
pardon
Извините (Izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Netherlands
Southeastern Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
590,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Smederevo–Vršac
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Serbia
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
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,300,000.001,500,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million8.70 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million8.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Nederlands
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Montenegrin
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
serbe
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
5.5 Ethnicity
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Standard Serbian
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