Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Somalia
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  
- 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
Somali Language
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Oromo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
akkam
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
Galatoomi
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
Maaloo
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
naa dhiisi
  
sorry
  
Bye
Nagayattii!
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Borana
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
19
Dialect 2
Orma
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Wata
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
24.00 million
  
33
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
Afaan Oromo
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
galla
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Galla-Sprache
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Oromos
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
16
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Cushitic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
  
Standard Dutch
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
om
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
orm
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
orm
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
orm
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1736
  
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
  
Oromo and Dutch Speaking population
Oromo and Dutch speaking population is one of the factors based on which Oromo and Dutch languages can be compared. The total count of Oromo and Dutch Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Oromo and Dutch on Oromo vs Dutch where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Oromo and Dutch Language Codes
Oromo and Dutch language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Oromo and Dutch Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.