1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
European Union, Slovenia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy
1.7 Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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 Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
Serbo-Croatian
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
3.3 How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Kako se imate?
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
Prekmurje Slovene
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Netherlands
Hungary, Slovenia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
590,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Italy
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
Slovenia
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 million2.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
22.00 million2.50 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Slovenian, Slovenscina
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
slovène
5.3.5 German Name
Niederländisch
Slowenisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
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
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology