Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
New Zealand
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
New Zealand
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Australia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Māori Language Commission
  
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.
  
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Tahitian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maori-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Hello
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Mauruuru koutou
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
E pēhea ana koe ?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Night pai
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
pai ahiahi
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Afternoon pai
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Morning pai
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Tēnā
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Aroha mai
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
poroporoaki
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Aroha ahau ki a koe
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
tukua ahau
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
South Island Māori
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
New Zealand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Western North Island Maori
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
New Zealand
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Eastern North Island Maori
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
New Zealand
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
0.18 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
0.18 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
te Reo Māori
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
New Zealand Maori
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
maori
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Maori-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Māori people
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
1814
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Polynesian
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Maori
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
mi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
mri
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
mao
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
mri
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
maor1246
  
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
  
Not Available
  
Dutch and Maori Speaking population
Dutch and Maori speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Maori languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Maori Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maori 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 Maori on Dutch vs Maori where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Dutch and Maori Language Codes
Dutch and Maori language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dutch and Maori Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.