Countries
Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
63
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Abkhazia
Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Europe
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
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Caucasian languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2662
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
62
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2160
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Hallo
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
dankjewel
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
goede Nacht
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
goedenavond
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
goedemorgen
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
alsjeblieft
амритана
Sorry
sorry
Амарахь
Bye
vaarwel
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
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Excuse Me
pardon
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Gronings
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
590,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Sadz
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
73
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
22.00 million0.13 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nederlands
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
abkhaze
German Name
Niederländisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Abkhaz people
History
Origin
AD 450-500
c. 1650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Germanic
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Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Abkhaz
Language Position
4828
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
nl
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
abk
ISO 639 2/B
dut
abk
ISO 639 3
nld
abk
ISO 639 6
nld
abks
Glottocode
mode1257
abkh1244
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative