Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
dankjewel
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
goede Nacht
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
goedenavond
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
goedemorgen
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
alsjeblieft
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
pardon
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Gronings
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Mappila
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
India
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Limburgian
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Nederlands
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
malayalam
German Name
Niederländisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Malayali
Origin
AD 450-500
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Not Available
Branch
Western
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
No early form
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Malayalam
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mode1257
mala1464
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
No data available
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic
Dutch and Malayalam 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 Malayalam greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Malayalam language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Malayalam word for "Thank You" is നന്ദി (nandi). Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Malayalam Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Malayalam Difficulty
The Dutch vs Malayalam difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch Alphabets and Malayalam 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 Malayalam are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Malayalam, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Malayalam time required is 44 weeks.