Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
China, Taiwan
Second Language
South Africa
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
German and English Languages
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
dankjewel
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
goede Nacht
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
goedenavond
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
goedemorgen
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
alsjeblieft
请 (Qǐng)
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
pardon
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Gronings
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Netherlands
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
China, United States of America
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Native Name
Nederlands
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
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French Name
néerlandais; flamand
chinois
German Name
Niederländisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
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Ethnicity
Dutch people
Han
Origin
AD 450-500
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
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Branch
Western
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Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
mode1257
sini1245
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
79-AAA
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Dutch and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Chinese language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Chinese Difficulty
The Dutch vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.