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Dutch language

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Dutch language member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). Also called Netherlandish, it is spoken by about 15 million inhabitants of the Netherlands, where it is the national language, and by about 300,000 people in the Western Hemisphere. The written and spoken forms of Dutch differ significantly. For example, written Dutch exhibits far greater formality than spoken Dutch in both grammar and vocabulary. One reason for this divergence is that written Dutch evolved from the Flemish dialect spoken in the culturally... Read more
Dutch language
...and Standard Dutch, based approximately on the speech of the major urban centres of North Holland and South Holland. 'Flemish' (or Dutch in Belgium) has its own phonetic and lexical regionalisms. Dutch language Dutch language Dutch language Read more
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DUTCH. The national language of the Netherlands...English and FRISIAN , Dutch belongs to the Low...of INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES ; all are structurally...water show that Dutch is closer to English...loans entered the language in the US: boss...2) English in Dutch . Because of ... Read more

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