Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
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 Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Biko
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Ndo
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Ibo
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
igbo
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Kwa
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Standard Igbo
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Dutch and Igbo Speaking population
Dutch and Igbo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Igbo languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Igbo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Igbo language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Dutch and Igbo on Dutch vs Igbo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Dutch and Igbo Language Codes
Dutch and Igbo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dutch and Igbo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.