Dutch vs Tetum - Language

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Dutch Language

Mastering Dutch will take from you 575-600 hours or 23-24 weeks in a class according to FSI. Difficulty category for mastering it is evaluated 1 point.

Tetum Language

Learning Tetum might seem like a overwhelming thing to do. FSI has concluded that it takes 1100 hours or 44 weeks in a class to learn the language. The difficulty point is 2.

Dutch Community

You will most likely find people, who speaks Dutch in Netherlands (Holland) and in the northern half of Belgium, Aruba, Belgium (Flemish), Brazil, Canada, Caribbean Netherlands, Curacao, Germany, Sint Maarten, South Africa, Suriname, United States.
Number of native speakers is about 16,400,000.
Number of fluent speakers is about 23,000,000. The biggest country in which Dutch is used as a native language is Netherlands (Holland) and in the northern half of Belgium.

Tetum Community

Native speakers of Tetum are mostly from Indonesia and are about 500,000 people.
Tetum are spoken fluently by 550,000 people.
The language is spoken in Indonesia, Rote and West Timor East Timor.

Dutch Origin

Dutch came from East Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.

Tetum Origin

Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family is the origin of Tetum language.