Countries
Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
61
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Philippines
Second Language
South Africa
Filipinos
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia, Australia
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
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.
- In 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
Similar To
German and English Languages
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2625
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2118
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Baybayin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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Greetings
Hello
Hallo
Kamusta
Thank You
dankjewel
Salamat po
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Kamusta ka na?
Good Night
goede Nacht
Magandang gabi
Good Evening
goedenavond
Magandang gabi po
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
Magandang hapon po
Good Morning
goedemorgen
Magandang umaga po
Please
alsjeblieft
pakiusap
Sorry
sorry
pinagsisisihan
Bye
vaarwel
Paálam
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Iniibig kita
Excuse Me
pardon
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
Dialects
Dialect 1
Gronings
Batangas Tagalog
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Batangas, Gabon
How Many People Speak
590,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Bisalog
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Philippines
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Filipino
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Philippines
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
73
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million73.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %0.42 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
22.00 million28.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nederlands
Tagalog
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Filipino, Pilipino
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
tagalog
German Name
Niederländisch
Tagalog
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Tagalog people
History
Origin
AD 450-500
1593
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indonesian
Branch
Western
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Filipino
Language Position
4858
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Tagalog
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
nl
t1
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
tgl
ISO 639 2/B
dut
tgl
ISO 639 3
nld
tg1
ISO 639 6
nld
tgl
Glottocode
mode1257
taga1269
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
31-CKA
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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