Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
65
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
China, Taiwan
Second Language
South Africa
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
624
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2123
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hallo
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
dankjewel
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
goede Nacht
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
goedenavond
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
goedemorgen
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
alsjeblieft
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
vaarwel
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
pardon
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Gronings
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Netherlands
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
590,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Wu
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Yue
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
710
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
28.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %16.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
22.00 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nederlands
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
chinois
German Name
Niederländisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Han
Origin
AD 450-500
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Standard Chinese
Language Position
481
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
nl
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
zho
ISO 639 2/B
dut
chi
ISO 639 3
nld
zho
ISO 639 6
nld
zho
Glottocode
mode1257
sini1245
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating