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  2. Dutch language - Wikipedia

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    Dutch is a monocentric language, at least what concerns its written form, with all speakers using the same standard form (authorised by the Dutch Language Union) based on a Dutch orthography defined in the so-called "Green Booklet" authoritative dictionary and employing the Latin alphabet when writing; however, pronunciation varies between ...

  3. Dutch people - Wikipedia

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    Since World War II, Dutch emigrants have mainly departed the Netherlands for Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the United States, Belgium, Australia, and South Africa, in that order. Today, large Dutch communities also exist in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Turkey, and New Zealand. [30]

  4. List of countries and territories where Afrikaans or Dutch ...

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    It includes countries, which have Afrikaans and/or Dutch as (one of) their nationwide official language(s), as well as dependent territories with Afrikaans and/or Dutch as a co-official language. Worldwide, Afrikaans and Dutch as native or second language are spoken by approximately 46 million people.

  5. Terminology of the Low Countries - Wikipedia

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    Dutch humanists, started to use "Duytsch" in a sense which would today be called "Germanic". Beginning in the second half of the 16th century, the nomenclature gradually became more fixed, with "Nederlandsch" and "Nederduytsch" becoming the preferred terms for Dutch and with "Hooghduytsch" referring to the language today called German.

  6. Geographical distribution of Dutch speakers - Wikipedia

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    Dutch speakers, or Batavophones, are globally concentrated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname. Dutch is also spoken in minority areas through Europe and in many immigrant communities in all over the world. Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch, but is regarded as a separate language and will not be analyzed in this article.

  7. History of the Dutch language - Wikipedia

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    Dutch is noteworthy as the language of an outstanding literature, [citation needed] but it also became important as the tongue of an enterprising people, [peacock prose] who, though comparatively few in number, made their mark on the world community through trade and empire. Dutch is also among some of the earliest recorded languages of Europe.

  8. Modern Dutch - Wikipedia

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    The vocabulary of Modern Dutch up to 1920 is best documented in the book on the shelf Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal. In short, WNT is a project that began in the 19th century and was only completed in the early 21st century. This dictionary is the largest dictionary in the world. [1]

  9. History of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    The term "Batavian" is occasionally used to describe the Dutch today, similar to how "Gallic" describes the French. [18] A Frankish identity emerged in the lower and middle Rhine valley during the first half of the 3rd century, forming a confederation of smaller Germanic groups [19] including the descendants of the Batavian rebels.