About Dutch Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Dutch is a West Germanic language and is spoken by about 25 million people. It is the second language of almost 5 million people. A large number of the population of the Netherlands speak Dutch. About 60% of the population of Belgium are also Dutch speakers. It is the third most spoken Germanic language and is similar to English and German. It is the native language of the majority of the people of Suriname. It is the official language of Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten. Dutch is also spoken in the constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands that are located in the Caribbean. Dutch is very much similar to German and English. It doesn’t use the Germanic umlaut as a grammatical marker and has leveled much of its morphology. The language consists of two to three grammatical genders. Dutch has an extensive vocabulary and grammar.
About Filipino Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Filipino is the national language of the Philippines. Filipino is designated, along with English, and is the official language of the country. Tagalog is the first language of 24 million people and about one-fourth of the Philippine population speak Filipino. Filipino is spoken in "the native dialect and is written, in Metro Manila. It is also spoken in the urban centers of the archipelago". About 90% of the population speak Filipino and 60% can English in the Philippines. Filipino, uses verb-subject-object order and has head-initial directionality. It displays inflection and is not a tonal language. It has a pitch-accent language and a syllable-timed language. Filipino is officially taken as a pluricentric language and is enriched and developed by other Philippine Languages Filipino is enriched with grammatical properties and differs from Tagalog in many ways.
