Dutch (endonym: Nederlands [ˈneːdərlɑnts] ) is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first...

the Pennsylvania Dutch are referred to as Dutch, which typically refers to the inhabitants of the Netherlands or the Dutch language, only distantly related...

The Dutch Language Union (Dutch: Nederlandse Taalunie [ˈneːdərlɑntsə ˈtaːlˌyni] , NTU) is an international regulatory institution that governs issues...

with "a strong Dutch element" were enslaved people. Blacks who grew up in insular Dutch communities were raised speaking the Dutch language, or adopted it...

Dutch was the language used by colonizers for centuries in the Indonesian Archipelago, both when it was still colonized or partially colonized by the Netherlands...

Dutch is a West Germanic language, that originated from the Old Frankish dialects. Among the words with which Dutch has enriched the English vocabulary...

Dutch-language literature (Dutch: Nederlandstalige literatuur) comprises all writings of literary merit written through the ages in the Dutch language...

Dutch Sign Language (Dutch: Nederlandse Gebarentaal or NGT; Sign Language of the Netherlands or SLN) is the predominant sign language used by deaf people...

intelligibility between the two languages, especially in written form. The name of the language comes directly from the Dutch word Afrikaansch (now spelled...

Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (Vlaams-Nederlands), Belgian Dutch (Belgisch-Nederlands [ˈbɛlɣis...

A Dutch creole is a creole language whose main lexifier is the Dutch language, a West Germanic language of the Low Countries. These creoles usually developed...

the Dutch language (Dutch: Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal [ˈʋoːrdə(n)ˌlɛist ˈneːdərlɑntsə ˈtaːl]) is a spelling dictionary of the Dutch language (Dutch orthography)...

unstandardised orthographies based on Standard Dutch orthography. The UNESCO Atlas of endangered languages lists the language as vulnerable.[full citation needed]...

Dutch dialects and varieties are primarily the dialects and varieties that are both cognate with the Dutch language and spoken in the same language area...

Dutch Americans (Dutch: Nederlandse Amerikanen) are Americans of Dutch and Flemish descent whose ancestors came from the Low Countries in the distant past...

The Pennsylvania Dutch are either monolingual English speakers or bilingual speakers of both English and the Pennsylvania Dutch language, which is also...

official languages. The Kingdom of Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French, and German. A number of non-official, minority languages and dialects...

1150 and 1500. Until the advent of Modern Dutch after 1500 or c. 1550, there was no overarching standard language, but all dialects were mutually intelligible...

and Dutch speakers (assuming a rounded total of 46 million) worldwide. Native Dutch (47.8%) Native Afrikaans (15.5%) Afrikaans as second language (22...

terminology for the oldest historical phase of the Dutch language traditionally includes both Old Dutch as well as Old Low Franconian. In English linguistic...

Netherlands. They share a common ancestry and culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide...

Hollandic or Hollandish (Dutch: Hollands [ˈɦɔlɑnts] ) is the most widely spoken dialect of the Dutch language. Hollandic is among the Central Dutch dialects...

The Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised overseas territories and trading posts under some form of Dutch control from the...

regional languages such as Javanese, Sundanese, Minangkabau, Balinese, Banjarese, and Buginese, as well as by foreign languages such as Arabic, Dutch, Hokkien...

by some Dutch people in the sense of Nederlands (the Dutch language), occasionally with the intention of contrasting with other types of Dutch people or...

Notable dictionaries of the Dutch language include: Etymologicum teutonicae linguae, the first known Dutch dictionary published by Cornelius Kiliaan in...

English language can be spoken by the vast majority of the population, with estimates of English proficiency reaching 90% to 97% of the Dutch population...

Berbice Creole Dutch (also known as Berbice Dutch) is a now extinct Dutch creole language, once spoken in Berbice, a region along the Berbice River in...

the previous phases of the languages, Middle Dutch and Old Dutch. The term Early Modern Dutch has been applied to the Dutch spoken in the 16th and 17th...

predominant language of the Netherlands is Dutch, spoken and written by almost all people in the Netherlands. Dutch is also spoken and official in the Dutch Caribbean...