1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Burma
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
France, Germany, Indonesia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
- 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
Kinyarwanda Language
German and English 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
Not Available
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?
Urakomeye?
hoe gaat het met je?
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
Not available
Ik hou van jou
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Netherlands
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Tanzania
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
990,000.004,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Tanzania
Belgium, Netherlands
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
153,000.001,300,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
8.80 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.80 million22.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Hollands, Nederlands
5.3.4 French Name
rundi
néerlandais; flamand
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
5.5 Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Dutch people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology