Dutch

Igbo

Dutch and Igbo

Dutch

Igbo

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Countries

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

Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

0 46

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National Language

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

Nigeria

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

Equatorial Guinea

Regulated By

Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)

Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture

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.

In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.

Similar To

German and English Languages

Yoruba and Hausa Languages

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2636

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

0 32

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How Many Consonants

2128

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks52 weeks

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Hallo

kedụ

Thank You

dankjewel

dalụ

How Are You?

hoe gaat het met je?

kedụ ka ịmere

Good Night

goede Nacht

ka chi fo

Good Evening

goedenavond

mgbede ọma

Good Afternoon

goedemiddag

ehihie ọma

Good Morning

goedemorgen

ụtụtụ ọma

Please

alsjeblieft

Biko

Sorry

sorry

Ndo

Bye

vaarwel

Kachifo

I Love You

Ik hou van jou

a hụrụ m gị n'anya

Excuse Me

pardon

ngọpụ

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gronings

Enuani

Where They Speak

Netherlands

Nigeria

How Many People Speak

590,000.0028,000,000.00

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Low Saxon

Ngwa

Where They Speak

Denmark, Germany, Netherlands

Nigeria

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.001,500,000.00

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Limburgian

Not present

Where They Speak

Belgium, Netherlands

How Many People Speak

1,300,000.0024.00

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

720

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

28.00 million25.00 million

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.32 %0.09 %

0 89

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Native Speakers

22.00 million25.00 million

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million24.00 million

0.01 400

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Native Name

Nederlands

igbo

Alternative Names

Hollands, Nederlands

Ibo

French Name

néerlandais; flamand

igbo

German Name

Niederländisch

Ibo-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈneːdərlɑnts]

[iɡ͡boː]

Ethnicity

Dutch people

Igbo people

History

Origin

AD 450-500

30th Century BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Germanic

Kwa

Branch

Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch

No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Dutch

Standard Igbo

Language Position

4857

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)

Igbo Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nld

ibo

ISO 639 2/B

dut

ibo

ISO 639 3

nld

ibo

ISO 639 6

nld

ibo

Glottocode

mode1257

nucl1417

Linguasphere

52-ACB-a

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Agglutinative

Dutch and Igbo Alphabets

Dutch and Igbo Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Dutch and Igbo. In Dutch Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Igbo Alphabets there are 36 letters. To learn Dutch and Igbo languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Dutch and Igbo 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 Igbo greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Dutch and Igbo are Most Spoken Languages.

All Dutch and Igbo 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 Igbo dialects. Various dialects of Dutch and Igbo language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Dutch are spoken in different Dutch Speaking Countries whereas Igbo Dialects are spoken in different Igbo speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Dutch vs Igbo Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Dutch dialects include: Gronings, Low Saxon. Igbo dialects include: Enuani , Ngwa. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Dutch and Igbo Speaking population

Dutch and Igbo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Igbo languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Igbo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 %. 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 Igbo on Dutch vs Igbo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Dutch and Igbo Language Codes

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