Countries
Nigeria
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Nigeria
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Interesting Facts
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Hausa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
sannu
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
gode ku
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
yaya dai
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
mai kyau dare
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
barka da yamma
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
Don Allah
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
yi hakuri
  
sorry
  
Bye
sai anjima
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
Ina son ku
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
gafara dai
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Gaananci
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Daragaram
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million
  
28
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
35.00 million
  
27
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
haoussa
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
14
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Chadic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Hausa
  
Standard Dutch
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ha
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hau
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
hau
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
hau
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
haus1257
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Synthetic
  
Hausa and Dutch 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 Hausa and Dutch greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hausa and Dutch language. Hausa word for "Hello" is sannu or Dutch word for "Thank You" is dankjewel. Find more of such common Hausa Greetings and Dutch Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hausa vs Dutch Difficulty
The Hausa vs Dutch difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hausa Alphabets and Dutch 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 Hausa and Dutch are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hausa and Dutch, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hausa is 44 weeks while to learn Dutch time required is 24 weeks.