Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Myanmar
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Myanmar 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.
  
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Thai Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
43.00 million
  
30
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
Nederlands
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
birman
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
1113 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Modern Burmese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
sout3159
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Dutch and Burmese 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 Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Burmese language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Burmese Difficulty
The Dutch vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch Alphabets and Burmese 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 Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.