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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Dutch,Hollands,Nederlands
 
 
<b>Description:</b>
 
Dutch ( Nederlands (help·info)) is a West Germanic language spoken by over 22 million people as a native language, and about 5 million people as a second language. Most native speakers live in the Netherlands, Flanders in Belgium, and Suriname, with smaller groups of speakers in parts of France, Germany and several former Dutch colonies. It is closely related to other West Germanic languages (e.g., English, West Frisian and German) and somewhat more remotely to the North Germanic languages.
Dutch is the parent language of several creole languages as well as of Afrikaans, one of the official languages of South Africa and the most widely understood in Namibia. Dutch and Afrikaans are to a very large extent mutually intelligible, although they have separate spelling standards and dictionaries and have separate language regulators. The Dutch Language Union coordinates actions of the Dutch, Flemish and Surinamese authorities in linguistic issues, language policy, language teaching and literature.
In English the language of the people of the Netherlands and Flanders is referred to as Dutch; or rarely as Netherlandic. Flemish is a popular informal term to refer to Belgian Dutch, Dutch as<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=19985174 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Dutch Language Speakers</h2>
<googlemap zoom="1" width=400 height=300 lat="9.242066" lon="18.580485" type="map">
-29.819142, 25.349897, South Africa
52.206638, 5.642224, Netherlands
-3.259068, 109.702752, Indonesia
5.063087, -55.426544, Suriname
53.000000, 9.000000, Europe
-21.739118, 17.214583, Namibia</googlemap>
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        <tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Genesis Translation:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nld_gen-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nld_gen-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Orthography:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nld_ortho-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nld_ortho-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>2</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nld_ortho-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nld_ortho-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Phonology:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nld_phon-3 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nld_phon-3 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universal Declaration Of Human Rights:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_nld_undec-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_nld_undec-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
 
<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/netherlands Netherlands]</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>
 
<b><i>Countries: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/holy_roman_empire Holy Roman Empire], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/netherlands Netherlands], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/indonesia Indonesia], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/namibia Namibia], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/south_africa South Africa], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/suriname Suriname]
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/europe Europe]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-1 Code: </b></td><td>nl</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>nld</td></tr>
 
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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Indo-European Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Germanic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[West Germanic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Low Saxon-Low Franconian Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Low Franconian Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Dutch Language]]</b>
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Hollandic]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Frisian language]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Brabantian]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Flemish]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Limburgish language]]
 
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