Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
India, No official status
Total No. Of Countries
60
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
India
Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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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.
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Maithili and Magahi
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2643
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
611
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2134
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hallo
प्रणाम (prannam)
Thank You
dankjewel
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
Good Night
goede Nacht
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Evening
goedenavond
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Morning
goedemorgen
राम राम (raam raam)
Please
alsjeblieft
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
Sorry
sorry
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Bye
vaarwel
प्रणाम (prannam)
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
Excuse Me
pardon
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Dialect 1
Gronings
Caribbean Hindustani
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
How Many People Speak
590,000.0016,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Fiji Hindi
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00380,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Tharu Bhojpuri
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
India
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
713
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
28.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %0.43 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
22.00 million40.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nederlands
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
bhojpuri
German Name
Niederländisch
Bhojpuri
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Bhojpuri speakers
Origin
AD 450-500
19th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
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Branch
Western
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Bhojpuri
Language Position
4837
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
nl
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
bho
ISO 639 2/B
dut
bho
ISO 639 3
nld
bho
ISO 639 6
nld
bho
Glottocode
mode1257
bhoj1246
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
59-AAF-sa
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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