Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
South Africa
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
German and English Languages
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Thank You
dankjewel
متشکرم
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
چطور هستید?
Good Night
goede Nacht
شب بخیر
Good Evening
goedenavond
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
goedemorgen
صبح به خیر
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
من شما را دوست دارم
Dialect 1
Gronings
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Iran, Iraq
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Afganistan
Dialect 3
Limburgian
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Nederlands
فارسی
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
persan
German Name
Niederländisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Persian people
Origin
AD 450-500
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Persian
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mode1257
fars1254
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
58-AAC-c
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic
Dutch and Persian 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 Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Dutch and Persian language. Dutch word for "Hello" is Hallo or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Dutch Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Dutch vs Persian Difficulty
The Dutch vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Dutch Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Dutch and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Dutch is 24 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.