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