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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

62
0 46
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National Language

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

Second Language

South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Europe

Minority Language

France, Germany, Indonesia
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America

Regulated By

Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
National Council for the Maltese Language

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.
  • Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
  • Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.

Similar To

German and English Languages
Western Arabic Dialects

Derived From

-
Roman Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2630
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

66
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2124
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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
Ħello

Thank You

dankjewel
Grazzi

How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?
Kif int?

Good Night

goede Nacht
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Evening

goedenavond
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Afternoon

goedemiddag
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb

Good Morning

goedemorgen
L-għodwa t-tajba

Please

alsjeblieft
Jekk jogħġbok

Sorry

sorry
Skużani!

Bye

vaarwel
Ċaw

I Love You

Ik hou van jou
Inħobbok ħafna

Excuse Me

pardon
Skużi!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gronings
Qormi

Where They Speak

Netherlands
Malta

How Many People Speak

590,000.00520,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Low Saxon
Żejtun

Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Malta

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.00500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Limburgian
Not Present

Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands
-

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.00500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

72
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million0.52 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.32 %0.02 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

22.00 million0.52 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million0.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nederlands
Malti

Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands
Malti

French Name

néerlandais; flamand
maltais

German Name

Niederländisch
Maltesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[mɔːltiːz]

Ethnicity

Dutch people
Maltese

History

Origin

AD 450-500
c. 1470

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Semitic

Branch

Western
North Abric

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Dutch
Maltese

Language Position

4825
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Maltese Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

nl
mt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nld
mlt

ISO 639 2/B

dut
mlt

ISO 639 3

nld
mlt

ISO 639 6

nld
mlt

Glottocode

mode1257
malt1254

Linguasphere

52-ACB-a
12-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Synthetic

Dutch and Maltese Alphabets

Dutch and Maltese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dutch and Maltese. In Dutch Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Dutch and Maltese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dutch and Maltese 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 Maltese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dutch and Maltese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Dutch and Maltese Speaking population

Dutch and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 %. 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 Maltese on Dutch vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dutch and Maltese Language Codes

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