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Countries

Countries

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

633
0 46
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National Language

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

South Africa
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

France, Germany, Indonesia
South Africa

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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

German and English Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

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Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2626
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

67
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo
Hello

Thank You

dankjewel
Thank you

How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?
How are you?

Good Night

goede Nacht
Good Night

Good Evening

goedenavond
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

goedemiddag
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

goedemorgen
Good Morning

Please

alsjeblieft
Please

Sorry

sorry
Sorry

Bye

vaarwel
Bye

I Love You

Ik hou van jou
I love you

Excuse Me

pardon
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gronings
American English

Where They Speak

Netherlands
United States of America

How Many People Speak

590,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Low Saxon
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Limburgian
Welsh English

Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

7188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.32 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

22.00 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nederlands
English

Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands
English

French Name

néerlandais; flamand
anglais

German Name

Niederländisch
Englisch

Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Dutch people
English people

History

Origin

AD 450-500
5th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
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Branch

Western
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Standard Dutch
Standard English

Language Position

483
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed English

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

nl
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nld
eng

ISO 639 2/B

dut
eng

ISO 639 3

nld
eng

ISO 639 6

nld
engs

Glottocode

mode1257
stan1293

Linguasphere

52-ACB-a
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Dutch and English Alphabets

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

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

Dutch and English Speaking population

Dutch and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and English languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Dutch vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dutch and English Language Codes

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