Dutch

Dutch (Nederlands) Dutch is a West Germanic language with about 24 million speakers, mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium. There are about 16 million Dutch speakers in the Netherlands, where it is the official language. There are about 7.6 million Dutch speakers in Belgium, mainly in Antwerp, East Flanders, Flemish Brabant and Limburg provinces, and also in Brussels. Dutch is spoken in Curaçao, Aruba, Sint Maarten and elsewhere in the Caribbean Netherlands by about 19,760 people. There are about 126,200 Dutch speakers in Suriname, and in Indonesia some lawyers know Dutch as certain legal codes written in Dutch. Other countries with significiant numbers of Dutch speakers include Germany (151,000), the USA (142,000) and Canada (103,000) [ Dutch at a glance • Native name: Nederlands, [ˈneːdərlɑnts] • Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, West Germanic, Low Franconian (Frankish) • Number of speakers: c. 28 million • Spoken in: Netherlands, Beligum, Suriname, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, France (Flanders) • First written: 9th century • Writing system: Latin script • Status: Official language in Netherlands, Beligum, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Suriname. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • [ Standard Dutch The official or standard form of Dutch is known as Algemeen Beschaafd Nederlands (ABN), 'General Civilized Dutch'. It is taught in schools and used by authorities in the Netherlands, Flanders (Belgium), Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. An association known as the Taa...

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pertaining to or designating the style of painting and subject matter developed in the Netherlands during the 17th century, chiefly characterized by the use of chiaroscuro, muted tones, naturalistic colors or forms, and of genre, landscape, or still-life subjects drawn from contemporary urban and rural life. The idioms go Dutch (related to in Dutch (which uses Dutch to mean “trouble”) are both sometimes perceived as insulting to or by the Dutch. In addition, the adjective Dutch is found in a few other set phrases ( Dutch is not authentic. Although insulting a particular person or nationality may be unintentional, it is best to be aware that use of these terms is sometimes perceived as offensive to or by the Dutch.

Dutch is a European language whose native speakers number around 22 million as of 2018. The language has a large number of speakers and is used in six countries as well as four regional bodies as its official language. Dutch is similar to both English and German and shares some grammatical structures from the two languages. It is the third most spoken language in Europe after English and German languages. The History of the Language Dutch started out as a set of Franconian dialects in the early fifth century and evolved to its modern recognizable form over a period of 15 centuries. Dutch shares a common predecessor with Scandinavian languages, German, and English and are all grouped as Germanic languages. The oldest identified Dutch sentence was written probably in the year 510 CE and was used to free from servitude a serf. The most famous old Dutch sentence, a line of poetry, was written by a Flemish monk who lived in England at the time and was dated to around 1100 CE. Old Dutch transformed into Middle Dutch, and by around 1150 CE there was an increase in Dutch writing and literature. Middle Dutch was a collection of dialects instead of one standard language which was heavily influenced by political boundaries. Modern Dutch arose due to standardization of the language, and in 1980 Belgium and the Netherlands signed the Language Union Treaty whereby they agreed to many principles one of which was to establish a standard spelling system. Dutch mainly spread through the col...

Dutch is a national language in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname in South America and the Dutch Antilles. In Belgium, it’s the official language of Flanders, the Northern region of the country, and is also spoken in Brussels, although the majority of the city’s population speak French. In Suriname and the Dutch Antilles, Dutch is still an official language, but several other languages are spoken there too. In total, there are over 22 million native speakers of Dutch and it’s a popular second language in Germany, the north of France and increasingly in Eastern Europe. You may also find older native speakers in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and Canada as many Dutch people migrated to these countries in the 1950’s. Many Dutch words are similar to English ones as both languages come from the same old Germanic root; particularly names for everyday things like fruits and vegetables or colours, e.g. appel, apple, peer, pear, banaan, banana, tomaat, tomato, blauw, blue, rood, red, groen, green. Dutch settlers in the U.S. in the 17th century held on to their language for quite some time and many words made their way into (American) English, such as coleslaw from koolsla, cabbage salad, cookie from koekje, biscuit, or Santa Claus from Sinterklaas / Sint Nicholaas, Saint Nicholas. Another source of Dutch influence on the English language is through Afrikaans, which in its turn is a Dutch-based creole, e.g. apartheid, literally separateness, wildebeest, wild beast, aardvark, eart...