Dutch

West Germanic language

Also known as Dutch language · Netherlandic · Netherlandic language · Netherlandish · Netherlandish language

Country: Netherlands
, Belgium
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1.“ScriptSource - Belgium”scriptsource.org/country/BERetrieved 2023-08-21
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, Suriname
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1.“ScriptSource - Suriname”scriptsource.org/country/SRRetrieved 2023-08-21
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Overview

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Dutch is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders. Dutch was one of the official languages of South Africa until 1925, when it was replaced by Afrikaans, a separate but partially mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans, depending on the definition used, may be considered a sister language, spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, and evolving from Cape Dutch dialects.

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183 statements · 14% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Uses capitalization for: proper noun
Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb
V2 word order
nominative–accusative language
stress-timed language
time–manner–place
fusional language
Language regulatory body: Dutch Language Union
Speakers: 23.1M(2019) applies to part: first language
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1.Stated in EthnologueRetrieved 2022-04-23
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Category for films in this language: Category:Dutch-language films
Has grammatical gender: common
neuter
masculine
feminine
Dutch f/m shift
Dutch m/n gender
masculine, feminine, or neuter
Dutch f/n word
Native label: Nederlands pronunciation audio: Nl-Nederlands.ogg · subject lexeme: L348378
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1.github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/main/nl.xml
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Hollands
Vlaams
Permanent duplicated item: Q25681636
Has grammatical mood: indicative
imperative
subjunctive
Has conjugation class: Germanic strong conjugation
Germanic weak conjugation
Short name: нидерландский
нідерландська
нідэрландская
холандски
niderlandca
нидерландӣ
ҳоландӣ
нидерландаг
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нідэрляндзкая
нидерландски
холандски
Has tense: present tense
past tense
Replaces: Old Low Franconian
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1.Stated in Archaeology & Language
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Middle Dutch
Has grammatical case: nominative case
accusative case
dative case
Subclass of: Low Franconian
Wikimedia language code: nl
Practiced by: Dutch language specialist
Ethnologue language status: 1 National
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1.Stated in Ethnologueethnologue.com/language/nldRetrieved 2019-05-10
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Indigenous to: Antwerp
Flemish Brabant
Flanders
Flemish Region
Limburg
East Flanders
Netherlands
Brussels-Capital Region
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French Flanders
Kleve
Walloon Brabant
Hainaut
Named after: theodisk
Low Countries
Related category: Category:Dutch pronunciation category contains: pronunciation
Entry in abbreviations table: нидерл. used by: Словарь собственных имён русского языка
Studied by: Dutch studies
Script: Dutch alphabet
Dutch six-dot Braille
Dutch eight-dot Braille
Category for music in this language: Category:Dutch-language music
Female form of label: la langue néerlandaise

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84 identifiers linking Dutch across the web's reference databases

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