Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
France
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
Merci
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
désolé
  
sorry
  
Bye
au revoir
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
African French
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
français
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
français
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Standard Dutch
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic