Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
61
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Japan
Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Palau
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2699
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2114
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hallo
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
dankjewel
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
goede Nacht
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
goedenavond
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
goedemorgen
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
alsjeblieft
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
vaarwel
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
pardon
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Gronings
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
590,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Hakata
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Kansai
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
kansai
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
731
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
28.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
22.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nederlands
日本語
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Nihongo
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
japonais
German Name
Niederländisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
AD 450-500
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Japanese
Language Position
488
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
nl
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
dut
jpn
ISO 639 3
nld
jpn
ISO 639 6
nld
jpn
Glottocode
mode1257
nucl1643
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic