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Countries

Countries

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

67
0 46
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National Language

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Germany

Second Language

South Africa
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Europe

Minority Language

France, Germany, Indonesia
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

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

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2626
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

610
0 32
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How Many Consonants

219
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo
hallo

Thank You

dankjewel
Danke

How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

goede Nacht
gute Nacht

Good Evening

goedenavond
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

goedemiddag
guten Tag

Good Morning

goedemorgen
guten Morgen

Please

alsjeblieft
bitte

Sorry

sorry
Verzeihung

Bye

vaarwel
Tschüs

I Love You

Ik hou van jou
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

pardon
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gronings
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Netherlands
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

590,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Low Saxon
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Germany

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Limburgian
Texas German

Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands
Texas

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

728
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.32 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

22.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nederlands
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

néerlandais; flamand
allemand

German Name

Niederländisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Dutch people
Germans

History

Origin

AD 450-500
6th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Germanic

Branch

Western
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Dutch
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

489
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

nl
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nld
deu

ISO 639 2/B

dut
ger

ISO 639 3

nld
deu

ISO 639 6

nld
deus

Glottocode

mode1257
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

52-ACB-a
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Dutch and German Alphabets

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

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

Dutch and German Speaking population

Dutch and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and German languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Dutch vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dutch and German Language Codes

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