Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Ethiopia
  
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
  
Somalia
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Somali Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Oromo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Hallo
  
akkam
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Galatoomi
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Attam jirta/jirtu?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Nagayattii buli
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Akkam waarite
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Attam oolte / ooltan
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Attam bulte/bultan
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Maaloo
  
Sorry
sorry
  
naa dhiisi
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Nagayattii!
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Sin jaaladha
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Maaloo na dabarsi
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Borana
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
19
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Orma
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Wata
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
25.00 million
  
40
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
24.00 million
  
33
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
Afaan Oromo
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Afaan Oromoo
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
galla
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Galla-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Oromos
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
16
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Cushitic
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Afaan Oromo
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
om
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
orm
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
orm
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
orm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
nucl1736
  
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 Oromo Speaking population
Dutch and Oromo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Oromo languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Oromo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 %. 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 Oromo on Dutch vs Oromo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Dutch and Oromo Language Codes
Dutch and Oromo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dutch and Oromo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.