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May 15, 2024 · Low German evolved from Old Saxon (Old Low German), which is most closely related to Old Frisian and Old English (Anglo-Saxon). The Low German dialects spoken in the Netherlands are mostly referred to as Low Saxon, those spoken in northwestern Germany (Lower Saxony, Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremen, and Saxony-Anhalt west of the ...
- Estimated 4.35–7.15 million, Up to 10 million second-language speakers (2001)
2 days ago · The Dutch part of Low Saxon is sometimes also viewed as a dialect of Dutch as it falls in the area of the Dutch standard language. Of these dialects, Hollandic and Dutch Low Saxon are solely spoken by Northerners. Brabantic, East Flemish, West-Flemish/Zeelandic and Limburgish are cross border dialects in this respect.
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2 days ago · In the 19th century, Dutch historians believed that the Franks, Frisians, and Saxons had populated and inhabited the Low Countries, but this theory fell out of favour in the 20th century. Due to the scarcity of written sources, knowledge of this period depends to a large degree on the interpretation of archaeological data.
May 11, 2024 · 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. The earliest documents in the Dutch language date from ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 3, 2024 · Roman-Dutch Law (Roomsch Hollandsch Recht) This is the name applied to legal system of the province of Holland between c1450-c1830. It also sailed with the Dutch trading companies (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC)/Dutch East India Company and Geoctrooieerde Westindische Compagnie (GWC)/Dutch West India Company) to parts of Africa, Ceylon, East Indies and Latin America the world where ...
- Elizabeth Wells
- 2014
May 15, 2024 · Languages. Dutch (official); note - Frisian is an official language in Fryslan province; Frisian, Low Saxon, Limburgish, Romani, and Yiddish have protected status under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages; Dutch is the official language of the three special municipalities of the Caribbean Netherlands; English is a recognized regional language on Sint Eustatius and Saba ...
4 days ago · Netherlands, country located in northwestern Europe, also known as Holland. The country is low-lying and remarkably flat, with large expanses of lakes, rivers, and canals. Some 2,500 miles of the Netherlands consist of reclaimed land, the result of a process of careful water management dating back to medieval times.
