Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
69
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Austria
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
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Church Slavonic