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Papiamento is an official language in the special municipality of Bonaire. It is also the native language in the autonomous states of Curaçao and Aruba. Several dialects of Dutch Low Saxon are spoken in much of the north-east of the country and are recognised as regional languages according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority ...
As of 2024, there are 57 sovereign states and 28 non-sovereign entities where English is an official language. Many administrative divisions have declared English an official language at the local or regional level. Most states where English is an official language are former territories of the British Empire.
Karachay–Cherkessia (state language; with Abaza, Cherkess, Nogai and Russian) [67] Karelian: Karelia (authorized language; with Finnish and Veps) [81] Kashmiri: India (with 21 other regional languages) Jammu and Kashmir; Kazakh: Republic of Altay (official language; in localities with Kazakh population) [84] part of the People's Republic of China
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
Frisian languages belong to the West Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages, the most widespread language family in Europe and the world. Its closest living genealogical relatives are the Anglic languages , i.e. English and Scots ( Anglo-Frisian languages ); together with the also closely related Low Saxon dialects the two groups make ...
Dutch is a co-official language, together with Papiamento and English [15] Netherlands: constituent country: Dutch is the official language. [16] Only Friesland and the Caribbean Netherlands have co-official languages. Friesland: province: Dutch is a co-official language, together with West Frisian [15] Bonaire: municipality
Gronings, spoken in Groningen (Netherlands), as well as the closely related varieties in adjacent East Frisia (Germany), has been influenced by the East Frisian language and takes a special position within Dutch Low Saxon. Kleverlandish (Kleverlands) is a dialect spoken in Gelderland (Netherlands) and in adjacent parts of North Rhine-Westphalia ...
English is compulsory at all levels of the Dutch secondary education system: . Many elementary schools teach English in the upper grades.; Pupils must score at least a 5.5/10 for English Language and Literature at the high school finals to be able to graduate, which equals to a A2 level at the lowest (At VMBO high school level), [9] and a B2 to C1 level at the highest (At VWO high school level).