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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

61
0 46
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National Language

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

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
Argentina, United Kingdom

Regulated By

Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Welsh Language Commissioner

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.
  • One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
  • Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.

Similar To

German and English Languages
English Language

Derived From

-
British Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2629
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

67
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2121
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

64
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo
Helô

Thank You

dankjewel
Diolch

How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?
Sut ydych chi?

Good Night

goede Nacht
Nos da

Good Evening

goedenavond
Noswaith dda

Good Afternoon

goedemiddag
P'nawn da

Good Morning

goedemorgen
Bore da

Please

alsjeblieft
os gwelwch yn dda

Sorry

sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym

Bye

vaarwel
Hwyl

I Love You

Ik hou van jou
Dw i'n dy garu di

Excuse Me

pardon
Esgusodwch fi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gronings
Patagonian Welsh

Where They Speak

Netherlands
Argentina

How Many People Speak

590,000.0038,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Low Saxon
Y Wyndodeg

Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Gwynedd

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.00700,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Limburgian
Y Bowyseg

Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands
Powys

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.00700,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

78
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million7.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.32 %0.24 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

22.00 million7.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million0.70 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nederlands
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg

Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands
Cymraeg

French Name

néerlandais; flamand
gallois

German Name

Niederländisch
Kymrisch

Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]

Ethnicity

Dutch people
Welsh people

History

Origin

AD 450-500
9th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Celtic

Branch

Western
Brythonic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh

Standard Forms

Standard Dutch
Welsh

Language Position

4831
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Welsh Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

nl
cy

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nld
cym

ISO 639 2/B

dut
wel

ISO 639 3

nld
cym

ISO 639 6

nld
cym

Glottocode

mode1257
wels1247

Linguasphere

52-ACB-a
50-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
Historical

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Verb-Subject-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional

Dutch and Welsh Alphabets

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

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

Dutch and Welsh Speaking population

Dutch and Welsh speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Welsh languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Welsh Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Welsh language is 0.24 %. 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 Welsh on Dutch vs Welsh where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dutch and Welsh Language Codes

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