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nldDutch  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second language for another 5 million people. It also holds official status in the Caribbean island nations of Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten, while historical minorities remain in parts of France and Germany, and to a lesser extent, in Indonesia, and up to half a million native Dutch speakers may be living in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa have been standardised into Afrikaans, a mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch which today is spoken to some degree by an estimated total of 15 to 23 million people in South Africa and Namibia.

Entry terms

  • Dutch language
  • Flemish

ISO 639-1 code

  • nl

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • dut

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • nld

ISO 639-3 code

  • nld

Notation

  • nld

In other languages

  • Néerlandais

    French

  • néerlandais
  • Niederländisch

    German

  • Niederländische Sprache
  • olandese

    Italian

  • Lingua olandese
  • holandês

    Portuguese

  • Língua neerlandesa
  • neerlandés

    Spanish

  • Idioma neerlandés

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/nld

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