1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.4 Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
South Africa
France, Germany, Indonesia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
- 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
Not Available
German and English 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?
How are you?
hoe gaat het met je?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
I love you
Ik hou van jou
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
American English
Gronings
4.1.1 Where They Speak
United States of America
Netherlands
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
Low Saxon
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.004,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
United Kingdom
Belgium, Netherlands
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
2,500,000.001,300,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
400.00 million22.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
400.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Hollands, Nederlands
5.3.4 French Name
anglais
néerlandais; flamand
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Dutch people
6 History
6.1 Origin
5th Century AD
AD 450-500
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 English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard English
Standard Dutch
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed English
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
Synthetic