Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
62
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
India, Nepal
Second Language
South Africa
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2647
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2122
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hallo
pranam
Thank You
dankjewel
dhanyabad
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
goede Nacht
Śubharātri
Good Evening
goedenavond
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
goedemorgen
Suprabhaat
Please
alsjeblieft
kripaya
Sorry
sorry
maf karai
Bye
vaarwel
Alavidā
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
pardon
kripaya
Dialect 1
Gronings
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Nepal
How Many People Speak
590,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
North India
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Khortha
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
715
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
28.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %0.41 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
22.00 million27.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nederlands
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
maithili
German Name
Niederländisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Maithil
Origin
AD 450-500
14th 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
Standard Maithili
Language Position
4840
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
nl
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
mai
ISO 639 2/B
dut
mai
ISO 639 3
nld
mai
ISO 639 6
nld
mai
Glottocode
mode1257
mait1250
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
No data available
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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