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Countries

Countries

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Hong Kong, Macau

Total No. Of Countries

62
0 46
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National Language

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
China, Guangdong

Second Language

South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia

Minority Language

France, Germany, Indonesia
Hawaii

Regulated By

Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division

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.
  • Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
  • Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.

Similar To

German and English Languages
Chinese Language

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2628
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

68
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2120
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

610
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo
您好

Thank You

dankjewel
谢谢

How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?
你好吗?

Good Night

goede Nacht
晚安

Good Evening

goedenavond
晚上好

Good Afternoon

goedemiddag
下午好

Good Morning

goedemorgen
早上好

Please

alsjeblieft

Sorry

sorry
遗憾

Bye

vaarwel
再见

I Love You

Ik hou van jou
我爱你

Excuse Me

pardon
原谅我

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gronings
Guangzhou

Where They Speak

Netherlands
outside mainland China

How Many People Speak

590,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Low Saxon
Xiguan

Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Limburgian
Hong Kong

Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.0070,000,000.00
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 million60.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.32 %16.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

22.00 million52.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million71.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nederlands
Kwang Tung Wa

Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese

French Name

néerlandais; flamand
cantonais

German Name

Niederländisch
Kantonesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]

Ethnicity

Dutch people
Han Chinese

History

Origin

AD 450-500
17th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Germanic
-

Branch

Western
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Dutch
Standard Cantonese

Language Position

481
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Cantonese

Scope

Individual
-

Code

ISO 639 1

nl
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nld
yue

ISO 639 2/B

dut
yue

ISO 639 3

nld
No data available

ISO 639 6

nld
yue

Glottocode

mode1257
cant1236

Linguasphere

52-ACB-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
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Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
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Dutch and Cantonese Alphabets

Dutch and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dutch and Cantonese. In Dutch Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Dutch and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dutch and Cantonese 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 Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dutch and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Dutch and Cantonese 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 Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Dutch and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Dutch are spoken in different Dutch Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Dutch vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Dutch dialects include: Gronings, Low Saxon. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Dutch and Cantonese Speaking population

Dutch and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Cantonese on Dutch vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dutch and Cantonese Language Codes

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