Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
India, Nepal
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Nepal
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
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.
  
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Bhojpuri Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Hallo
  
pranam
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
dhanyabad
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
Śubharātri
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
shubh sandhya
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
Suprabhaat
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
kripaya
  
Sorry
sorry
  
maf karai
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Alavidā
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
kripaya
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Tharuwat
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Madhubani
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
North India
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Khortha
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Deoghar, France
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
32.00 million
  
35
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
27.00 million
  
30
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
2.80 million
  
33
Native Name
Nederlands
  
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
maithili
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Maithili
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Maithil
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
14th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
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
  
Standard Maithili
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
mai
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
mai
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
mai
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
mait1250
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Dutch and Maithili 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 Maithili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Maithili language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Maithili word for "Thank You" is dhanyabad. Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Maithili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Maithili Difficulty
The Dutch vs Maithili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch Alphabets and Maithili 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 Maithili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Maithili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Maithili time required is Not Available.