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Countries

Countries

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre

Total No. Of Countries

62
0 46
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National Language

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
France, Spain

Second Language

South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

France, Germany, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee

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.
  • The Basque language is the oldest European language.
  • Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.

Similar To

German and English Languages
Spanish

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2627
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2121
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo
Kaixo

Thank You

dankjewel
Eskerrik asko

How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?
Zer moduz?

Good Night

goede Nacht
Gabon

Good Evening

goedenavond
Arratsalde on

Good Afternoon

goedemiddag
Arratsalde on

Good Morning

goedemorgen
Egun on

Please

alsjeblieft
Mesedez

Sorry

sorry
Barkatu

Bye

vaarwel
Agur

I Love You

Ik hou van jou
Maite zaitut

Excuse Me

pardon
Barkatu

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gronings
Navarro-Lapurdian

Where They Speak

Netherlands
France

How Many People Speak

590,000.0068,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Low Saxon
Souletin

Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
France, Soule, Spain

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.008,700.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Limburgian
Biscayan

Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands
Spain

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.00750,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

76
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million7.20 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.32 %0.12 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

22.00 million7.20 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million0.70 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nederlands
Euskara

Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense

French Name

néerlandais; flamand
basque

German Name

Niederländisch
Baskisch

Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[bɑːsk]

Ethnicity

Dutch people
Basque people

History

Origin

AD 450-500
c. 1000

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Vasconic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
-

Branch

Western
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian

Standard Forms

Standard Dutch
Basque

Language Position

4830
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Basque Sign Language

Scope

Individual
-

Code

ISO 639 1

nl
eu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nld
eus

ISO 639 2/B

dut
baq

ISO 639 3

nld
eus

ISO 639 6

nld
eus

Glottocode

mode1257
basq1248

Linguasphere

52-ACB-a
40-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
-

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Agglutinative

Dutch and Basque Alphabets

Dutch and Basque Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dutch and Basque. In Dutch Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Basque Alphabets there are 27 letters. To learn Dutch and Basque languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dutch and Basque languages. The Dutch phonology consist Dutch vowels and Dutch consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Dutch greetings vs Basque greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dutch and Basque are Most Spoken Languages.

All Dutch and Basque Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Dutch and Basque dialects. Various dialects of Dutch and Basque language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Dutch are spoken in different Dutch Speaking Countries whereas Basque Dialects are spoken in different Basque speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Dutch vs Basque Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Dutch dialects include: Gronings, Low Saxon. Basque dialects include: Navarro-Lapurdian , Souletin. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Dutch and Basque Speaking population

Dutch and Basque speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Basque languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Basque Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Basque language is 0.12 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Dutch and Basque on Dutch vs Basque where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dutch and Basque Language Codes

Dutch and Basque language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dutch and Basque Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.