Countries
Burkina Faso
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Interesting Facts
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
  
- 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
Dagbani Language
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Mossi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kia ora
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
Laafi bala
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
Ne y yungo
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
ne y zabre
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
gafare
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
gafare
  
sorry
  
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
Y gafare
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
  
Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Saremde
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Taolende
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
7.60 million
  
99+
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
Mosse
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
moré
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Mossi
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
Not available
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Mossi
  
Standard Dutch
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data Available
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mos
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
mos
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
mos
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
moss1236
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Mossi 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 Mossi and Dutch greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mossi and Dutch language. Mossi word for "Hello" is Kia ora or Dutch word for "Thank You" is dankjewel. Find more of such common Mossi Greetings and Dutch Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mossi vs Dutch Difficulty
The Mossi vs Dutch difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mossi 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 Mossi and Dutch are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mossi and Dutch, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mossi is 30 weeks while to learn Dutch time required is 24 weeks.