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Countries

Countries

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

62
0 46
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National Language

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

South Africa
Estonia

Speaking Continents

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

Minority Language

France, Germany, Indonesia
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Institute for the Languages of Finland

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.
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.

Similar To

German and English Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2629
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

68
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2113
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

64
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo
Moi

Thank You

dankjewel
Kiitos

How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

goede Nacht
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

goedenavond
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

goedemiddag
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

goedemorgen
Hyvää huomenta

Please

alsjeblieft
haluta

Sorry

sorry
Anteeksi

Bye

vaarwel
Heippa

I Love You

Ik hou van jou
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

pardon
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gronings
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

Netherlands
Finland

How Many People Speak

590,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Low Saxon
Rauma

Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Limburgian
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

721
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.32 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

22.00 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nederlands
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands
Suomi

French Name

néerlandais; flamand
finnois

German Name

Niederländisch
Finnisch

Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Dutch people
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

AD 450-500
1543

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Finno-Ugric

Branch

Western
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Standard Dutch
standard Finnish

Language Position

4822
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Finnish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

nl
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nld
fin

ISO 639 2/B

dut
fin

ISO 639 3

nld
fin

ISO 639 6

nld
fin

Glottocode

mode1257
finn1318

Linguasphere

52-ACB-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Dutch and Finnish Alphabets

Dutch and Finnish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dutch and Finnish. In Dutch Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Dutch and Finnish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dutch and Finnish 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 Finnish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dutch and Finnish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Dutch and Finnish Speaking population

Dutch and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. 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 Finnish on Dutch vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dutch and Finnish Language Codes

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