Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
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
  
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.
  
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Kannada Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Kannada Script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Namaskara
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
Mast Upakara.
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Yencha Ullar?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
yedde rathre
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
yedde baiyya
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
yedde madhyana
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
yedde kaande
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
Daya maltadu
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Yenna thapu aandu
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Barpe
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Kshamisi
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Brahmin tulu
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Tamil Nadu
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Jain
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Tamil Nadu
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Girijan
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Tamil Nadu
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
1.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
1.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
Not Available
  
Native Name
Nederlands
  
Tulu
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Tuluva
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Dravidian 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
  
Tulu
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
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
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
tcy
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
tulu1258
  
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 Tulu 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 Tulu greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Tulu language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Tulu word for "Thank You" is Mast Upakara.. Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Tulu Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Tulu Difficulty
The Dutch vs Tulu difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch Alphabets and Tulu 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 Tulu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Tulu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Tulu time required is 44 weeks.