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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

62
0 46
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National Language

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia

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
Austria, Hungary, Italy

Regulated By

Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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.
  • The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
  • The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.

Similar To

German and English Languages
Serbo-Croatian

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2625
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
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

62
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo
Halo

Thank You

dankjewel
Hvala

How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?
Kako se imate?

Good Night

goede Nacht
Lahko noč

Good Evening

goedenavond
Dober večer

Good Afternoon

goedemiddag
Dober dan

Good Morning

goedemorgen
Dobro jutro

Please

alsjeblieft
Prosim

Sorry

sorry
Oprostite

Bye

vaarwel
Nasvidenje

I Love You

Ik hou van jou
Ljubim te

Excuse Me

pardon
Oprostite

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gronings
Prekmurje Slovene

Where They Speak

Netherlands
Hungary, Slovenia

How Many People Speak

590,000.0080,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Low Saxon
Resian

Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Italy

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.002,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Limburgian
Styrian

Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands
Slovenia

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

748
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million2.50 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.32 %0.03 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

22.00 million2.50 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nederlands
Slovenščina

Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands
Slovenian, Slovenscina

French Name

néerlandais; flamand
slovène

German Name

Niederländisch
Slowenisch

Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]

Ethnicity

Dutch people
Slovenes

History

Origin

AD 450-500
972-1093

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
Slovene

Language Position

4828
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Slovene Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

nl
sl

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nld
slv

ISO 639 2/B

dut
slv

ISO 639 3

nld
slv

ISO 639 6

nld
slv

Glottocode

mode1257
slov1268

Linguasphere

52-ACB-a
53-AAA-f

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
-

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional

Dutch and Slovene Alphabets

Dutch and Slovene Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dutch and Slovene. In Dutch Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Slovene Alphabets there are 25 letters. To learn Dutch and Slovene languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dutch and Slovene 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 Slovene greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dutch and Slovene are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Dutch and Slovene Speaking population

Dutch and Slovene speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Slovene languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Slovene Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Slovene language is 0.03 %. 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 Slovene on Dutch vs Slovene where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dutch and Slovene Language Codes

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