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History of the Dutch language. Dutch is a West Germanic language, that originated from the Old Frankish dialects. Among the words with which Dutch has enriched the English vocabulary are: brandy, coleslaw, cookie, cruiser, dock, easel, freight, landscape, spook, stoop, and yacht.
6 days ago · The Dutch language derives from Low Franconian, the speech of the Western Franks, which was restructured through contact with speakers of North Sea Germanic in the historical regions of Flanders and 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...
A Dutch speaker. 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% ...
Aug 14, 2017 · The Dutch language is currently spoken by around 28 million people worldwide and is recognised as an official language in Suriname, Belgium, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands’ four constituent countries. It shares many similarities with modern German and English, and originated from the same language group over 1,000 years ago.
- Tom Coggins
May 1, 2015 · “Dutch – Biography of a language” by Roland Willemyns provides, quite traditionally, a chronological overview of the history of the language that we now call Dutch, from its unrecorded roots as part of the West Germanic languages and the oldest preserved documents from the area of the Low Countries, via characteristics of varieties of Dutch in t...
- Ulrike Vogl
Native name: Nederlands, [ˈneːdərlɑnts] Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, West Germanic, Low Franconian (Frankish) Number of speakers: c. 28 million. Spoken in: Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, France (Flanders) First written: 9th century. Writing system: Latin script.
In 1938 Dutch was made the sole official language of the northern part of Belgium. Together with English, Frisian, German, and Luxembourgish, Dutch is a West Germanic language.
