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Countries

Countries

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden

Total No. Of Countries

64
0 46
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National Language

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

Second Language

South Africa
Finland

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Antartica, Europe

Minority Language

France, Germany, Indonesia
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish 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.
  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.

Similar To

German and English Languages
Norwegian and Danish Language

Derived From

-
Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2629
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

69
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2118
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo
hej

Thank You

dankjewel
tacka dig

How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?
hur mår du

Good Night

goede Nacht
godnatt

Good Evening

goedenavond
god kväll

Good Afternoon

goedemiddag
god eftermiddag

Good Morning

goedemorgen
god morgon

Please

alsjeblieft
vänligen

Sorry

sorry
ledsen

Bye

vaarwel
hej då

I Love You

Ik hou van jou
jag älskar dig

Excuse Me

pardon
ursäkta mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gronings
Dialects

Where They Speak

Netherlands
Gabon

How Many People Speak

590,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Low Saxon
Dialects

Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Georgia

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.0078,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Limburgian
Dialects

Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands
France

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.0096,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

779
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million15.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.32 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

22.00 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million5.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nederlands
Svenska

Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands
Ruotsi, Svenska

French Name

néerlandais; flamand
suédois

German Name

Niederländisch
Schwedisch

Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]

Ethnicity

Dutch people
Swedes, Finland Swedes

History

Origin

AD 450-500
13th Century

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 Swedish

Standard Forms

Standard Dutch
Standard Swedish

Language Position

4889
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

nl
sv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nld
swe

ISO 639 2/B

dut
swe

ISO 639 3

nld
swe

ISO 639 6

nld
swe

Glottocode

mode1257
swed1254

Linguasphere

52-ACB-a
52-AAA-ck to -cw

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
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Dutch and Swedish Alphabets

Dutch and Swedish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dutch and Swedish. In Dutch Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Swedish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Dutch and Swedish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dutch and Swedish 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 Swedish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dutch and Swedish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Dutch and Swedish Speaking population

Dutch and Swedish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Swedish languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Swedish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 %. 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 Swedish on Dutch vs Swedish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dutch and Swedish Language Codes

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