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2 days ago · Dutch ( endonym: Nederlands [ˈneːdərlɑnts] ⓘ) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language [4] 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 (or 60% of the population ...
5 days ago · Learn More. Together with English, Frisian, German, and Luxembourgish, Dutch is a West Germanic language. It derives from Low Franconian, the speech of the Western Franks, which was restructured through contact with speakers of North Sea Germanic along the coast (Flanders, Holland) about 700 ce.
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- The Dutch language is a West Germanic language that is the national language of the Netherlands and, with French and German, one of the three offic...
- Dutch is the language of most of the Netherlands, of northern Belgium, and of a small part of France along the North Sea. Dutch is also used as the...
- The Dutch language derives from Low Franconian, the speech of the Western Franks, which was restructured through contact with speakers of North Sea...
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3 days ago · Some European languages of this family—English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish—have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several continents.
2 days ago · This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language , regional language , or minority language .
4 days ago · Netherlands, country located in northwestern Europe, also known as Holland. “Netherlands” means low-lying country; the name Holland (from Houtland, or “Wooded Land”) was originally given to one of the medieval cores of what later became the modern state and is still used for 2 of its 12 provinces ( Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland ).
3 days ago · Sounds gross, but the best way to practice is to try to bring some phlegm into the back of your throat and gargle as if you were going to spit it out, whilst saying the word. Ad by Refinery89. It sounds awful, but you’ll soon get used to saying it naturally (without sounding all weird and phlegmy). 6.
4 days ago · English language, a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch languages. It originated in England and is the dominant language of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.
