Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
German and English Languages
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
dankjewel
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
goede Nacht
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
goedenavond
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
goedemorgen
  
günaydın
  
Please
alsjeblieft
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
sorry
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
vaarwel
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
pardon
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Gronings
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Netherlands
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Limburgian
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
75.00 million
  
23
Native Speakers
22.00 million
  
35
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million
  
25
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
Nederlands
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
  
turc
  
German Name
Niederländisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Dutch people
  
Turkish
  
Origin
AD 450-500
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Western
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nl
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nld
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
dut
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
nld
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mode1257
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Dutch and Turkish 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 Turkish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Turkish language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Turkish word for "Thank You" is teşekkür ederim. Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Turkish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Turkish Difficulty
The Dutch vs Turkish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch Alphabets and Turkish 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 Turkish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Turkish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Turkish time required is 44 weeks.