Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Japan
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Japan
Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Palau
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Korean Language
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
Hallo
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
dankjewel
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
goede Nacht
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
goedenavond
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
goedemorgen
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
alsjeblieft
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
vaarwel
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
pardon
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Gronings
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Kagawa
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Hakata
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Limburgian
Kansai
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
kansai
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Nederlands
日本語
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Not Available
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
japonais
German Name
Niederländisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Japanese (Yamato)
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Not Available
Branch
Western
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Japanese
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mode1257
nucl1643
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
45-CAA-a
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Dutch and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Japanese language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Japanese word for "Thank You" is ありがとう (Arigatō). Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Japanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Japanese Difficulty
The Dutch vs Japanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch Alphabets and Japanese 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 Japanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Japanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Japanese time required is 88 weeks.