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
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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)
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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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Munda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2630
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2121
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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
Henda ho
Thank You
dankjewel
Adi Johar
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
goede Nacht
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
goedenavond
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
संध्यायान
Good Morning
goedemorgen
Boge Setak’
Please
alsjeblieft
দয়া করে
Sorry
sorry
দুঃখিত
Bye
vaarwel
Hariau
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
pardon
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Gronings
Mahali
Where They Speak
Netherlands
India
How Many People Speak
590,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Not present
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
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How Many People Speak
4,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Not present
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
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How Many People Speak
1,300,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
71
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
28.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
22.00 million6.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nederlands
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
santal
German Name
Niederländisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
AD 450-500
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic 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
Santali
Language Position
4841
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
nl
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
sat
ISO 639 2/B
dut
sat
ISO 639 3
nld
sat
ISO 639 6
nld
sat
Glottocode
mode1257
sant1410
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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