1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Japan
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
2.3 National Language
Japan
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
2.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
2.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
2.6 Minority Language
Palau
France, Germany, Indonesia
2.7 Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
2.8 Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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.
2.9 Similar To
Korean Language
German and English Languages
2.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
5.4 Phonology
5.4.1 How Many Vowels
5.5.3 How Many Consonants
5.7 Scripts
5.8 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
5.9 Hard to Learn
5.9.1 Language Levels
3.1.1 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Hallo
6.2 Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
dankjewel
6.3 How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
hoe gaat het met je?
6.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
goede Nacht
6.5 Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
goedenavond
6.6 Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
goedemiddag
6.7 Good Morning
6.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
alsjeblieft
6.9 Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
sorry
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Ik hou van jou
6.12 Excuse Me
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
7.3 Dialect 2
7.3.1 Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,000,000.00
700
80000000
7.6 Dialect 3
7.6.1 Where They Speak
kansai
Belgium, Netherlands
7.6.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,300,000.00
1400
96000000
7.7 Total No. Of Dialects
9 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
128.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
10.8 Speaking Population
12.3 Native Speakers
128.00 million22.00 million
0.13
873
12.4.3 Second Language Speakers
1.3.1 Native Name
1.3.2 Alternative Names
Not Available
Hollands, Nederlands
1.3.3 French Name
japonais
néerlandais; flamand
1.3.4 German Name
1.4 Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
1.5 Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Dutch people
2 History
2.1 Origin
2.2 Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
2.2.1 Subgroup
2.2.2 Branch
2.3 Language Forms
2.3.1 Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
2.3.2 Standard Forms
2.3.3 Language Position
3.1.1 Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
3.2 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
4.5 Glottocode
4.6 Linguasphere
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
4.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic