Countries
Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
66
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
South Africa
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
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.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
German and English Languages
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2631
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
67
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Hallo
alo
Thank You
dankjewel
multumesc
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
ce mai faci?
Good Night
goede Nacht
noapte Buna
Good Evening
goedenavond
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
buna Ziua
Good Morning
goedemorgen
bună Dimineața
Please
alsjeblieft
Vă Rog
Sorry
sorry
scuze
Bye
vaarwel
La revedere
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
pardon
Scuza-Ma
Dialects
Dialect 1
Gronings
Aromanian
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
590,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.005,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Croatia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.001,400.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
710
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.32 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
22.00 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nederlands
Română
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
roumain; moldave
German Name
Niederländisch
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Romanians
History
Origin
AD 450-500
1521
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Romanian
Language Position
4836
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
nl
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
ron
ISO 639 2/B
dut
rum
ISO 639 3
nld
ron
ISO 639 6
nld
ron
Glottocode
mode1257
roma1327
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
51-AAD-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic