Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
India
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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.
  
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
380.00 million
  
5
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
Nederlands
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
hindi
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Standard Hindi
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Dutch and Hindi 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 Hindi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Hindi language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Hindi word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda). Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Hindi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Hindi Difficulty
The Dutch vs Hindi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch Alphabets and Hindi 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 Hindi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Hindi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Hindi time required is 44 weeks.