Countries
Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
62
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
South Africa
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2629
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2113
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
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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Greetings
Hello
Hallo
Moi
Thank You
dankjewel
Kiitos
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
goede Nacht
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
goedenavond
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
goedemorgen
Hyvää huomenta
Please
alsjeblieft
haluta
Sorry
sorry
Anteeksi
Bye
vaarwel
Heippa
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
pardon
Anteeksi
Dialects
Dialect 1
Gronings
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Finland
How Many People Speak
590,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Rauma
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
721
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
22.00 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nederlands
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Suomi
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
finnois
German Name
Niederländisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
ethnic Finns
History
Origin
AD 450-500
1543
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Western
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
standard Finnish
Language Position
4822
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
nl
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
fin
ISO 639 2/B
dut
fin
ISO 639 3
nld
fin
ISO 639 6
nld
fin
Glottocode
mode1257
finn1318
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
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Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic