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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 Languages. Low Saxon is spoken by 1,798,000 speakers. [5]
This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. List ... Dutch: 22,000,000 [12] 11 [a] Serbo-Croatian: 19,000,000 [13] 11 Turkish:
Dutch (endonym: Nederlands [ˈneːdərlɑnts] ⓘ) is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, 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 ...
Dutch is one of the official languages in all four of the constituent countries of the Kingdom, [5] however English and a Portuguese-based creole-language, called Papiamento, are the most spoken languages on the Dutch Caribbean. [6] The Dutch dialects in the Dutch Caribbean differ from island to island. World map of Dutch-speaking countries:
Most spoken languages, Ethnologue, 2024 [4] Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 941 ...
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Caribbean Netherlands: 5 1 6 0.08 18,540 3,708
Knowledge of foreign languages in the Netherlands, among population 15 and older, in 2006 [216] The official language of the Netherlands is Dutch, which is spoken by the vast majority of inhabitants. The dialects most spoken in the Netherlands are the Brabantian-Hollandic dialects. [217]
Dutch language (28 C, 42 P) E. Esperanto in the Netherlands (1 C, 4 P) F. Frisian languages (6 C, 12 P) L. Limburgish language (5 C, 5 P) Low Franconian languages (4 ...