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Countries

Countries

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

Total No. Of Countries

61
0 46
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National Language

Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Ethiopia

Second Language

South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Africa

Minority Language

France, Germany, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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Interesting Facts

  • 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.
  • Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
  • Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.

Similar To

German and English Languages
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2633
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

67
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2131
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Ethiopic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo
Selam

Thank You

dankjewel
amesege'nallo'

How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?
Dehina newot?

Good Night

goede Nacht
Dehna dur

Good Evening

goedenavond
melkam meshe't

Good Afternoon

goedemiddag
i'ndemin walu

Good Morning

goedemorgen
i'ndemin adäru

Please

alsjeblieft
i'bakwon

Sorry

sorry
aznallehu

Bye

vaarwel
tschao

I Love You

Ik hou van jou
afekirishalehu

Excuse Me

pardon
yiqirta

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gronings
Gondar

Where They Speak

Netherlands
Gondar

How Many People Speak

590,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Low Saxon
Gojjami

Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Ethiopia

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Limburgian
Showa

Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands
Ethiopia

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.0022,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

75
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million18.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.32 %0.37 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

22.00 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million10.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nederlands
አማርኛ

Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian

French Name

néerlandais; flamand
amharique

German Name

Niederländisch
Amharisch

Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[amarɨɲɲa]

Ethnicity

Dutch people
Amharas

History

Origin

AD 450-500
13th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Semitic

Branch

Western
Ethiopic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Ge'ez

Standard Forms

Standard Dutch
Amharic

Language Position

4855
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Amharic

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

nl
am

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nld
amh

ISO 639 2/B

dut
amh

ISO 639 3

nld
amh

ISO 639 6

nld
amh

Glottocode

mode1257
amha1245

Linguasphere

52-ACB-a
12-ACB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional

Dutch and Amharic Alphabets

Dutch and Amharic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dutch and Amharic. In Dutch Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Amharic Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Dutch and Amharic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dutch and Amharic languages. The Dutch phonology consist Dutch vowels and Dutch consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Dutch greetings vs Amharic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dutch and Amharic are Most Spoken Languages.

All Dutch and Amharic Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Dutch and Amharic dialects. Various dialects of Dutch and Amharic language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Dutch are spoken in different Dutch Speaking Countries whereas Amharic Dialects are spoken in different Amharic speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Dutch vs Amharic Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Dutch dialects include: Gronings, Low Saxon. Amharic dialects include: Gondar , Gojjami. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Dutch and Amharic Speaking population

Dutch and Amharic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Amharic languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Amharic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 %. 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 Dutch and Amharic on Dutch vs Amharic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dutch and Amharic Language Codes

Dutch and Amharic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dutch and Amharic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.