Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
62
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
China, Mongolia
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Turkish Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2635
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
613
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hallo
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
dankjewel
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
goede Nacht
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
goedenavond
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
goedemorgen
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
alsjeblieft
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
vaarwel
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
pardon
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Gronings
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
590,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
78
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
28.00 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
22.00 million5.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nederlands
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
mongol
German Name
Niederländisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Mongols
Origin
AD 450-500
1224-1225
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Germanic
Mongolian
Branch
Western
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
4826
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
nl
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
mon
ISO 639 2/B
dut
mon
ISO 639 3
nld
mon
ISO 639 6
nld
mon
Glottocode
mode1257
mong1331
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
part of 44-BAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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