Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Myanmar
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
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Pali Language
Alphabets in
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Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Myanmar
Dialect 3
Limburgian
Intha
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Burma
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
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Modern Burmese
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
mode1257
sout3159
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
No data available
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Dutch and Burmese 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 Dutch and Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Burmese language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Burmese Difficulty
The Dutch vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch Alphabets and Burmese 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 Dutch and Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.