Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Not Available
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Abkhazia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Caucasus
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
0.13 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Abkhaz
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Dutch and Abkhaz 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 Dutch and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Abkhaz language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The Dutch vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch Alphabets and Abkhaz 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 Dutch and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.