Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
62
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Nepal
Second Language
South Africa
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2648
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
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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
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hallo
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
dankjewel
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
goede Nacht
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
goedenavond
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
Good afternoon
Good Morning
goedemorgen
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
alsjeblieft
कृपया
Sorry
sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
vaarwel
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
pardon
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Gronings
Doteli
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Nepal
How Many People Speak
590,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
712
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
28.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.32 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
22.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nederlands
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
népalais
German Name
Niederländisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
AD 450-500
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Western
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Nepali
Language Position
4859
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
nl
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
nep
ISO 639 2/B
dut
nep
ISO 639 3
nld
npi
ISO 639 6
nld
nep
Glottocode
mode1257
nepa1254
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative