Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Malaysia
Second Language
South Africa
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Thailand
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Indonesian Language
Derived From
Not Available
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Thank You
dankjewel
terima kasih
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
Apa khabar?
Good Night
goede Nacht
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
goedenavond
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
goedemorgen
Selamat pagi
Bye
vaarwel
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
pardon
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Gronings
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Pekal
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Indonesia
Dialect 3
Limburgian
Musi
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Indonesia
Native Name
Nederlands
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Not Available
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
malais
German Name
Niederländisch
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Not Available
Origin
AD 450-500
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Not Available
Branch
Western
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mode1257
stan1306
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
No data available
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative
Dutch and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Malaysian language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Dutch vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.