Countries
Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Total No. Of Countries
623
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International 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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Amharic and Hebrew
Derived From
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2628
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2128
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Hallo
مرحبا
Thank You
dankjewel
شكرا
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
كيف حالك؟
Good Night
goede Nacht
تصبح على خير
Good Evening
goedenavond
مساء الخير
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
مساء الخير
Good Morning
goedemorgen
صباح الخير
Please
alsjeblieft
من فضلك
Sorry
sorry
آسف
Bye
vaarwel
وداعا
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
أحبك
Excuse Me
pardon
اعذرني
Dialects
Dialect 1
Gronings
Maghrebi
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
How Many People Speak
590,000.00310,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Sudanese
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Sudan
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Levantine
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Cyprus, Levant
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
726
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million452.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %4.43 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
22.00 million206.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million246.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nederlands
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
arabe
German Name
Niederländisch
Arabisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Arabs
History
Origin
AD 450-500
512 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Semitic
Branch
Western
North Arabic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Modern Standard Arabic
Language Position
4825
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Arabic
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
nl
ar
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
ara
ISO 639 2/B
dut
ara
ISO 639 3
nld
ara
ISO 639 6
nld
ara
Glottocode
mode1257
arab1395
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
12-AAC
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic