Countries
Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Total No. Of Countries
76
0
46
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National Language
Germany
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
- 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.
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
German and English Languages
Derived From
Albanian Languages
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
921
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
30 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
hallo
Hallo
Thank You
Danke
dankjewel
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
gute Nacht
goede Nacht
Good Evening
guten Abend
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
goedemiddag
Good Morning
guten Morgen
goedemorgen
Please
bitte
alsjeblieft
Sorry
Verzeihung
sorry
Bye
Tschüs
vaarwel
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
pardon
Dialects
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Gronings
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Netherlands
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Swabian German
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
Germany
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
820,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Texas German
Limburgian
Where They Speak
Texas
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
6,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
287
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.39 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
101.00 million22.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Deutsch
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
allemand
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Deutsch
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Germans
Dutch people
History
Origin
6th Century AD
AD 450-500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Germanic
Branch
Western
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Dutch
Language Position
948
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed German
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
de
nl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
nld
ISO 639 2/B
ger
dut
ISO 639 3
deu
nld
ISO 639 6
deus
nld
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
mode1257
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
52-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic