Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
61
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Myanmar
Second Language
South Africa
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Mon
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2133
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tangut
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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Hello
Hallo
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
dankjewel
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
goede Nacht
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
goedenavond
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
goedemorgen
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
alsjeblieft
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
vaarwel
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
pardon
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Gronings
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
590,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Intha
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Burma
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
75
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
28.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %0.50 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
22.00 million33.00 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
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
birman
German Name
Niederländisch
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Bamar people
Origin
AD 450-500
1113 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Modern Burmese
Language Position
4843
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
nl
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
mya
ISO 639 2/B
dut
bur
ISO 639 3
nld
mya
ISO 639 6
nld
mya
Glottocode
mode1257
sout3159
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating