Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
India
Total No. Of Countries
61
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
India
Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2652
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
616
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hallo
Namaskar
Thank You
dankjewel
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
kaso assa?
Good Night
goede Nacht
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
goedenavond
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
goedemorgen
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
alsjeblieft
Chike
Sorry
sorry
Maf kor
Bye
vaarwel
Adeus
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
pardon
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Gronings
Antruz
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Goa
How Many People Speak
590,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Not present
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
-
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Limburgian
Not present
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
-
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
71
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.32 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
22.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Nederlands
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
konkani
German Name
Niederländisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Konkanis
Origin
AD 450-500
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Kokani
Language Position
4823
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
nl
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
kok
ISO 639 2/B
dut
kok
ISO 639 3
nld
kok
ISO 639 6
nld
kok
Glottocode
mode1257
goan1235
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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