Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
National Language
China, Taiwan
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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
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German and English Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
dankjewel
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
goede Nacht
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
goedemiddag
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
goedemorgen
Please
请 (Qǐng)
alsjeblieft
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
pardon
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Gronings
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Netherlands
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Belgium, Netherlands
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Nederlands
Alternative Names
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Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
chinois
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Chinesisch
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
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[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Han
Dutch people
Origin
1250 BC
AD 450-500
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Germanic
Branch
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Western
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Dutch
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
sini1245
mode1257
Linguasphere
79-AAA
52-ACB-a
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic
Chinese 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 Chinese and Dutch greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Dutch language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Dutch word for "Thank You" is dankjewel. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Dutch Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Dutch Difficulty
The Chinese vs Dutch difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese 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 Chinese and Dutch are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Dutch, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Dutch time required is 24 weeks.