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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

61
0 46
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National Language

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Burundi, Gambia

Second Language

South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

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

Minority Language

France, Germany, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries

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.
  • Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
  • Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.

Similar To

German and English Languages
Kinyarwanda Language

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2621
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2119
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo
Bwakeye

Thank You

dankjewel
Urakoze

How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?
Urakomeye?

Good Night

goede Nacht
Ijoro ryiza

Good Evening

goedenavond
Mwiriwe

Good Afternoon

goedemiddag
Mwiriwe

Good Morning

goedemorgen
Mwaramutse

Please

alsjeblieft
Ndagusavye

Sorry

sorry
Ndasubiza

Bye

vaarwel
N’agasaga

I Love You

Ik hou van jou
Ndi waramutse

Excuse Me

pardon
Ndasaba

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gronings
Rwanda-Rundi

Where They Speak

Netherlands
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

How Many People Speak

590,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Low Saxon
Ha

Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Tanzania

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.00990,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Limburgian
Shubi

Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands
Tanzania

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.00153,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

76
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million8.80 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.32 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

22.00 million8.80 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million12.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nederlands
íkiRǔndi

Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands
Rundi, Urundi

French Name

néerlandais; flamand
rundi

German Name

Niederländisch
Kirundi

Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[kɪˈrʊndi]

Ethnicity

Dutch people
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa

History

Origin

AD 450-500
1500

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Germanic
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Branch

Western
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Dutch
Kirundi

Language Position

4886
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Kirundi Sign Language

Scope

Individual
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Code

ISO 639 1

nl
rn

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nld
run

ISO 639 2/B

dut
run

ISO 639 3

nld
run

ISO 639 6

nld
run

Glottocode

mode1257
rund1242

Linguasphere

52-ACB-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
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Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
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Dutch and Kirundi Alphabets

Dutch and Kirundi Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dutch and Kirundi. In Dutch Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Kirundi Alphabets there are 21 letters. To learn Dutch and Kirundi languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dutch and Kirundi 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 Kirundi greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dutch and Kirundi are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Dutch and Kirundi Speaking population

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

Dutch and Kirundi Language Codes

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