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Countries

Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
6  
9

National Language
China, Taiwan  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname  

Second Language
Republic of Brazil  
South Africa  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America  

Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia  
France, Germany, Indonesia  

Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)  

Interesting Facts
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
  • 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
Not Available  
German and English Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
24  
19
6  
3

How Many Consonants
23  
13
21  
11

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
13
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)  
Hallo  

Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)  
dankjewel  

How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)  
hoe gaat het met je?  

Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)  
goede Nacht  

Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)  
goedenavond  

Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)  
goedemiddag  

Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)  
goedemorgen  

Please
请 (Qǐng)  
alsjeblieft  

Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)  
sorry  

Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)  
vaarwel  

I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)  
Ik hou van jou  

Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)  
pardon  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mandarin  
Gronings  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan  
Netherlands  

How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00  
1
590,000.00  
32

Dialect 2
Wu  
Low Saxon  

Where They Speak
China, United States of America  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands  

How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00  
1
4,000,000.00  
16

Dialect 3
Yue  
Limburgian  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam  
Belgium, Netherlands  

How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00  
2
1,300,000.00  
18

Total No. Of Dialects
10  
10
7  
7

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million  
2
28.00 million  
38

Speaking Population
16.00 %  
2
0.32 %  
38

Native Speakers
873.00 million  
1
22.00 million  
35

Second Language Speakers
178.00 million  
3
6.00 million  
25

Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)  
Nederlands  

Alternative Names
Not Available  
Hollands, Nederlands  

French Name
chinois  
néerlandais; flamand  

German Name
Chinesisch  
Niederländisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]  

Ethnicity
Han  
Dutch people  

History

Origin
1250 BC  
AD 450-500  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Germanic  

Branch
Not Available  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch  

Standard Forms
Standard Chinese  
Standard Dutch  

Language Position
1  
1
48  
35

Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
zh  
nl  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
zho  
nld  

ISO 639 2/B
chi  
dut  

ISO 639 3
zho  
nld  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
sini1245  
mode1257  

Linguasphere
79-AAA  
52-ACB-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Historical  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating  
Synthetic  

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Chinese and Dutch Language History

Comparison of Chinese vs Dutch language history gives us differences between origin of Chinese and Dutch language. History of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC whereas history of Dutch language states that this language originated in AD 450-500. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Chinese and Dutch Language History.

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Chinese and Dutch Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Dutch greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Dutch language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Dutch word for "Thank You" is dankjewel. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Dutch Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Chinese vs Dutch Difficulty

The Chinese vs Dutch difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Dutch Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Dutch are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Dutch, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Dutch time required is 24 weeks.

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