Dutch Language | Origin of Dutch Language

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 9 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

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

Second Language

South Africa

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

France, Germany, Indonesia

Regulated By

Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)

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.

Similar To

German and English Languages

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 8 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 3 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 11 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks

Rank: 6 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Hallo

Thank You

dankjewel

How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?

Good Night

goede Nacht

Good Evening

goedenavond

Good Afternoon

goedemiddag

Good Morning

goedemorgen

Please

alsjeblieft

Sorry

sorry

Bye

vaarwel

I Love You

Ik hou van jou

Excuse Me

pardon

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gronings

Where They Speak

Netherlands

How Many People Speak

590,000.00

Rank: 65 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Low Saxon

Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.00

Rank: 49 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Limburgian

Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.00

Rank: 52 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 7 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million

Rank: 38 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.32 %

Rank: 40 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

22.00 million

Rank: 35 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million

Rank: 47 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Nederlands

Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands

French Name

néerlandais; flamand

German Name

Niederländisch

Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]

Ethnicity

Dutch people

History

Origin

AD 450-500

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic

Branch

Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch

Standard Forms

Standard Dutch

Language Position

Rank: 45 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nld

ISO 639 2/B

dut

ISO 639 3

nld

ISO 639 6

nld

Glottocode

mode1257

Linguasphere

52-ACB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic