Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
61
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Norway
Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Europe, South America
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2629
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hallo
hallo
Thank You
dankjewel
takk
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
goede Nacht
god natt
Good Evening
goedenavond
god kveld
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
goedemorgen
god morgen
Please
alsjeblieft
Vær så snill
Sorry
sorry
unnskyld
Bye
vaarwel
ha det
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
pardon
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Gronings
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
590,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Sogn
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
719
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
28.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
22.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nederlands
Norsk
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Norsk
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Niederländisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Norwegians
Origin
AD 450-500
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Germanic
Branch
Western
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
4818
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
nl
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
nor
ISO 639 2/B
dut
nor
ISO 639 3
nld
nor
ISO 639 6
nld
nor
Glottocode
mode1257
norw1258
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional