Similarities Between Dutch and Indonesian 

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Percentage of other languages contribute on loan words of Indonesian language Dutch (42.5%) = 3280 words English (20.9%) = 1610 Arabic (19%) = 1495 Sanskrit and Hindi (9%) = 684 Chinese (3.6%) = 290 Portuguese (2%) = 131 Tamil (2%) = 83 Persian (1%) = 63

Wow, I'm Dutch and I never knew the Indonesian language is so similar to ours. Of course, I know about our history together, but I wasn't aware of the fact that our languages were THAT similar. Great video. Edit: 2 months after this was posted people still reply with the same salty comments. Just chill people. I'm clearly stating that I know about the history. So perhaps it's better to read the comment carefully, before criticizing it. Thanks.

ok, im indonesian half dutch. i see the thumbnail, i click.

The gentleman from Netherlands is very polite and gentle. So are the host and Indonesian men. I truly enjoy this combination and episode.

I think Firman is very smart and humble at the same time. I saw many videos of him and he's always smiling and got the high score..

Firman has good knowledge of vocabulary! Most young Indonesians today wouldn't recognize the word "framboze" or "frambozen". The word today has almost been completely replaced by "rasberi", especially in writing.

My mother went to dutch school when she was young (HIS). I think Dutch is her second language after Javanese and she learned Bahasa Indonesia during Japan occupation. She passed away last year at 91. Thanks for posting this video. It brought me to my mom

I'm from Java, Indonesia. We still have more few words that Javanese people say it's 1. Zoen (Sun) as kiss 2. Fiets (pit) as bike 3. Spoor (sepur) as railway 4. Stroop (setrup) And other words we talk in Indonesian 5. Servet 6. Zuster 7. Stadion 8. Kantoor 9. Gratis 10. Oma and opa 11. Tante and oom 12. Telaat Etc.

Love Netherlands and Indonesia from Poland. We have much more in common than just the colors of Flags! Edit: OMG 1K LIKES YOU ARE CRAZY I LOVE YA

Love to indonesia from the netherlands

This is amazing, I'm Afrikaans and the words we use are the same so I could understand them. Afrikaans is a form of Dutch and Indonesian

Well I can speak both very well and am in Indonesia, I'm Surinamese btw heheh

I went to Bali (Indonesia) this summer and I was actually so surprised that some (older) balinese people could talk dutch to us. Iam dutch myself so I was really amazed by this. But Iam even more surprised that there're so many similarities between our two languages, I never noticed that. Love this video by the way! Update: its a year later and I see that there are a lot of responses! To clear things up: Yes I do know my history and I know that my country colonised Indonesia hundreds of years ago. I hate that that happened though and how they treated your family’s back then. I was just surprised there were still elders that could speak the language because it’s such a hard language. I’ve never met a foreigner that could speak my language and it really amazed me!!

Indonesia language has adopted many words from other languages. One of them is Dutch. During the colonization time I think Dutch language used as formal language in Indonesia, even my Grandma was speaking Dutch fluently.

Fun Fact : you never search this video

Estonia student learn indonesian they say some indonesian almost similiar their languange and and the teacher told them Indonesia had been colonized by the dutch, no wonder Indo had an influence especially language

no wonder we malaysian have difficulties with some of indonesian words even our language is somewhat similar. now I know where some of those words was from, and I believe there are a lot from Dutch; assimilated into the Bahasa Indonesia. Interesting and beautiful! I got new knowledge today and this is fun!

This was so interesting to watch as a native Dutch speaker myself! Great video!

I'm Javanese. Sometimes I don't understand when my grandma told me to buy some groceries. she said, "Buy me some 'stroops' at the nearest shop please". I was like, "what the hell is a 'stroop'?" until i watched some dutch indonesian videos and found out it was actually a dutch word for 'syrup'.

Many fans say firman is handsome and so smart. That right. Mahal Kita from Philippines

1:48 we call it håndduk in Norway and the way we pronounce is similar to the Indonesian way

Indonesian guys always smiles from beginning after the end. Lovely smile.

As a dutchman, we love you Indonesia ^^

My father was in the army and when I was young we lived close to the barracks. All around us lived soldiers and lots of them were ex-KNIL (Royal Dutch Indies Army). I was used hearing (grand)parents talking Maleis. As far as I understand it is a bit different from the presentday Bahasa Indonesia. Because all our dads were in the army and in the sixtees not that wealthy, Dutch children and children from Indonesian decent mixed very easy. So you comming in a home were the great smells of the Indonesian food were all around made it easy to accept our different backgrounds. And you also learned the words for all that dishes. And still when something is spicy I will use the word pedis, not heet(hot). Indonesian words krept into the Dutch language, in particular in the army and the navy. The word senang(feeling good) for instance is often used. When in Dutch making the G- or SCH- sound you don't really use your throat. You push the middle/back of your tongue to the back of the palate and push the air through. Someone from the north of the Netherlands will use the far back of his uvula/palate resulting in a harsh scraping sound. People from the souht and in Flanders will use middle of the palate resulting in a more soft sound. Like any languauge you will learn making these sounds at a very young age and your mouth will have no problems making those sounds. When you learn Dutch later in life you will have problems with the flowing move of your tongue. So making the S-Ch sounds wil have a hickup up that results in a sound like S-K. So instead of schop one will say skop. Making it just a bit more easy to pronounce the gap is filled with an e-sound: SEKOP The dialect 30 km North of Amsterdam will do exactly the same. Schapen becomes Skapen(sheep) Scheef becomes Skeef(crooked)

Similarities between Dutch, Indonesian and German: 1) 🇳🇱 Kamer 🇮🇩 Kamar 🇩🇪 Zimmer (/Kammer) ✅ 2) 🇳🇱 Perzik 🇮🇩 Persik 🇩🇪 Pfirsich ✅ 3) 🇳🇱 Rem 🇮🇩 Rem 🇩🇪 Bremse ✅ 4) 🇳🇱 Handdoek 🇮🇩 Handuk 🇩🇪 Handtuch ✅ 5) 🇳🇱 Ritssluiting🇮🇩 Ritsleting 🇩🇪 Reißverschluss ✅ 6) 🇳🇱 Tas 🇮🇩 Tas 🇩🇪 Tasche ✅ 7) 🇳🇱 Schep 🇮🇩 Sekop 🇩🇪 Schaufel (/Schippe) ✅ 8) 🇳🇱 Wortel 🇮🇩 Wortel 🇩🇪 Karotte ❌ 9) 🇳🇱 Saldo 🇮🇩 Saldo 🇩🇪 Saldo ✅ 10) 🇳🇱 Framboos 🇮🇩 Frambos 🇩🇪 Himbeere ❌ 11) 🇳🇱 Gang 🇮🇩 Gang 🇩🇪 Gang ✅ 9/11 common words👏🏻

Wow, really interesting. As German speaker I understood more than 60% of the words. I knew dutch has a lot in common, but was surprised I also got some of the Indonesian words. A vid about German similarities to Dutch OR Indonesian would be interesting.

Why did they act so surprised, the dutch colonized indonesia for freaking 300 years🤣

as aan afrikaans speaker, which was influencers by both of these languages, it was very interesting to see how similar all three were to each other

Efek samping hidup berdampingan 300 tahun lebih...

As a Dutch speaker (who learnt Dutch ) I am very surprised with these similarities...Indonesian has many similar words with Dutch 🇳🇱

Our peoples should get closer there is such a strong connection still.

indonesian and dutch is so similar to each other because of their history, i live in the netherlands but im indonesian :)

This is so interesting because I studied the history of the Dutch East India Company and had only heard that Dutch impacted Indonesia's language, but never could image. So thanks for doing this video, it really so cool to see it in an actual interactive manner! You can't get this anywhere else!

I’m not even dutch or indonesian and I’m watching this

Thank you. I learned a lot. I speak Dutch and Indonesia is one of the most attractive countries to go to on holiday for Dutch people.

This whole video: The Indonesian guy: *say smth* The dutch guy: *answer correctly* *_ehehehe_* The dutch guy: *say smth* The Indonesian guy: *_eum what? Srry?_* The dutch guy: *repeat* The Indonesian guy: *answer correctly* Both: *_ehehehehehe_* *Chill guys i love the video, it's a joke :))

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I was born and raised up in West Papua.. My father is 80 years old and he speak dutch fluently. As we all know that the Netherlands left Papua in the late 60s so that a lot of our parents were fluent in Dutch because they had studied in catholic schools that used Dutch as their primary language since childhood.

Here comes every Dutch person saying how they’re 10% Indonesian lmaoo

Im just looking through the comments waiting to find someone say ''G E K O L O N I S E E R D''

I have studied Dutch during college and there are many Indonesian words are absorbed from Dutch. The best part of learning Dutch is when you can read archives in Dutch because there can be found many words that are similar to Indonesian. Great video!💕

Jelmer seems to be a nice guy. Looks so humble just like Firman. We need more lovely guys like these.

😅 oma irama .. "dang dutch"

Ohhh so that's why my grandparents always spoke Dutch in a weird way, they were just speaking in Bahasa I. instead of Dutch!

In German : Kammer = chamber, Pfirsich = peach, Handtuch = towel, Tasche = bag, Gang = hallway, Tante = aunt, Rock = skirt

In Norway 🇳🇴 “Saldo” also means how much money or amount you have of something.

Entah knp hati serasa hangat ngeliat org2 bercengkrama soal keunikan negara mereka sendiri Keuntungannya? Punya temen baru + belajar hal2 baru 😊 Love this vid sm!

Firman quite charming and hv a good english

Dutch: Frikadel / Indo: Perkedel

Both of them are very handsome 😍

Saldo is also (bank account) balance in Norwegian. And "gang" is also hallway.

This is interesting dude! Keep it up

What a nice video! I’m Indonesian and my husband is Dutch. I was shocked before because theres so many similiar Dutch and Indonesian words 😂

In Russian peach is persik, too :D

Never knew we had soo many similarities! Very interesting :)

Both guys are super cute, ah! Also, it is amazing to learn how two languages I thought had nothing to do with each other are so similar! We Humans need to wake up and see that we are one big family, celebrating our similarities, respecting our differences and protecting our sovereignty. Love from Nigeria! :)

Finally!.. dutch and bahasa.. one word that blown me away is Gang.. i never thought it came from dutch, but then again almost 350 years.. the dutch really leave a mark on us.. and good job Bahador.. nice Vid.. greetings from Indonesia

And I was shocked how many words I understood, my first language is Afrikaans. In Afrikaans we call a banana a "piesang", so close to the Indonesian and Malay "pisang". Some of the older Afrikaans words used by my parents are so similar to the Dutch words mentioned here, shows the lineage of the Afrikaans language which developed from old Dutch.

Love this channel👍💗

Gak ada "Kecoa" ya??? Di Indonesia Timur khususnya Di Kupang dan Ambon kami menyebut "Kakarlak" untuk kecoa.. persis bahasa Belanda "kakkerlak"

Now this is what i call content!.... Greetings from Indonesia 🇮🇩

Firman is so smart and cute!!

Here in in manado, and maluku, we use local language that have more similarities with dutch

I love the way you guys did this. I was born in Soerabaja in 1958 and moved to the Netherlands in '59 then moved to the USA in 1969. It's so much fun to see the similarities. Thanks guys!❤

I'm Indonesian and sooo excited that I'm going to the Netherlands next month.

My grandmother was from Indonesia and moved to the Netherlands at age 15 I believe, she never spoke Bahasa Indonesia after she left, only a week and a half or so before her death she visited Indonesia again after 60 years, she didn’t know any Bahasa Indonesia before her trip, but within that week and a half she could speak most of it again, she said it felt like home, even though I’m sad that she passed, I’m happy for her that she passed away at home after 60 years of living in a different country.

This is what Im waiting for so long

This was so interesting to watch as a native Indonesian speaker myself, who also speak German but don't speak Dutch! Funny how connected we actually are. Very interesting :)

wow im norwegian and i could understand almost everything. I did not realize that indonesian was that similar to norwegian

😍😍 Firmaaann I'm your fans. Always admire his smile 😁

Wow i'm Afrikaans speaking from South Africa, so I always understood it's similarity to Dutch, and I knew the Dutch also colonized Indonesia. But I never really knew that Afrikaans had so many similarities to Indonesian. WOW. I literally understood almost everything they said to an extent. "Sekop" makes sense after it was explained. In Afrikaans a spade is a "graaf", but there is a specific spade called a "Skopgraaf". To scoop up also means to "Skep". Very similar to "Sekop". That is the only one I struggled with. But like i say, it makes so much sense.

Dutch in Indonesia is just like Spanish in Philippines, We have so many words from Sanskirt and Arabic here as well.

Finally, you got it Indonesia and Dutch. Good job mr. Bahador.

WoW I’m dutch and my dad is Indonesisch

Nice vids. I have to say I found some similarities with Italian as well. In Italian Kammer is Camera and even Saldo is written and pronounced the same. Astonishing how all the languages are close to the others.

You missed out another two almost similar words: Batterij (Dutch) Baterai (Indo) - Battery Kantoor (Dutch) Kantor (Indo) - Office

This is really interesting! Firman and his smiles... Good job guys!😊

Love this video.. i am indonesian but my oppa (grandpa ) is dutch...

I like how both speaker can properly introduce the similarities of the languages

Its funny to see because i'm mixed between dutch and indonesian

Love to Netherlands from Indonesia

Firman (Indonesian Guy) it's Cute Jelmer (Netherlands guy) it's Handsome

hi, I'm Indonesian, I love Dutch and I love my own language, namely Indonesia. Even though the Dutch used to colonize our country, it's impossible for Indonesia to take revenge on the Dutch. We consider you Dutch brothers and sisters, and our language is the same. Hug the Netherlands. We still love the Netherlands. love you Netherlands and love you Indonesia 🥰

i was surprised when i heard perzik, we russians say persik (Персик) to peach too

So interesting. I already knew that the majority of Indonesian loanwords are from Dutch (like, 3000+ words), but it's nice that you made the video. More people will learn the truth that most of those English-soundalike Indonesian words are actually from Dutch, not English.

Amazing How saldo is the same in portuguese too.. framboesa kinda sounds the same too

Well done, now I know they have similarities, new thing learned today

persamaan bahasa Banjar dan Belanda/league Banjar from league Nederland atred:auitred=mundur langsam:langzaam=pelan keleker:klekker=kelereng pingsut:pingset=pingset/sit satrup:stroop=sirup belasting:blasting=departemen ceklek:zeeklec=starpleer pandal:vandel impar:impart=spedometer kelamben: klemben=kue bolu mimisan:mimisen=hidung berdarah hadil:handel=parit/sungai kecil tustel:teostel=Kodak/potret kelotok:klopstock=perahu motor balik:bleek=kaleng pal:pal=kilometer berudu:beroedoe=kecebong berandalan:brendeleen=gangstar parai:vrei=libur pelanduk:plantdoek=rusa

Haha you can literally make a 6 hour long video out of this. As someone who speaks both Dutch and Indonesian fluently, I'm STILL finding words and phrases that have similar meanings and contexts

It's not so surprising that Dutch and Bahasa will be this similar according to our history. Because in my family, my grandma was very fluent in Dutch and some of her speech in Bahasa or Javanese language also influenced by Dutch😂

Amazing.... good to learn this.

The indonesian guy on video it's so smart

Thank you Bahador. I'm from Belgium.

Toronto, nice man! I always wanted to come once to Canada btw haha

Hello I am Indonesian and I learn Dutch too by myself, I really enjoy your video :). But, if I may know what's Firman's instagram and his youtube channel if he makes vlogs? 😂 Dank Je! Thank you! Terima kasih!! 😊

Thanks for the video since as for me an Indonesian there are several words in which our neighbour Malaysians do not know which in this video I know these words are coming from the dutch language since we also share a lot of words which I believe coming from malay language. What a great video!

Indonesian Parkir , Dutch parkeren Dosen vs docent let me add the next , later

I'm Indonesian, my late grandma is super fluent in Dutch because she went to school during Dutch occupation era, and I also get along well with so many Dutch friends from my days of studying abroad. Some Dutch loanwords are still used and some others are quite outdated such as "toestel" (camera, and in 'outdated' Indonesian it's "tustel") and when I used "tustel" once in front of an Indonesian elderly they laughed because I sound so old😂 But watching this video brings me so much joy!

learning both languages together; great comparison!