1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Benin, Nigeria
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Nigeria
1.4 Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Yoruba Academy
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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
1.9 Similar To
German and English Languages
Owo and Itsekiri 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
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?
Bawo ni o se wa
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
Ik hou van jou
mo nifẹ rẹ
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
590,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Benin, Togo
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00800,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Nigeria
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0010,000.00
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 million28.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Yariba, Yooba
5.3.4 French Name
néerlandais; flamand
yoruba
5.3.5 German Name
Niederländisch
Yoruba-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Dutch people
Yoruba people
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Yoruba Sign Language
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
52-ACB-a
No data available
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
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating