• Dutch speakers, or Batavophones, are globally concentrated in the Netherlands, Belgium , and Suriname. Dutch is also spoken in minority areas through Europe...
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    the geographical distribution of all Portuguese-speakers, a.k.a. Lusophones, regardless of legislative status. The Portuguese language is one of the most...
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    This article details the geographical distribution of speakers of the German language, regardless of the legislative status within the countries where...
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    following is a list of English-speaking population by country, including information on both native speakers and second-language speakers. The European Union...
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    population of 4,371,535 (Geostat Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine) 117,121 – 98,178 = 18,943 (total speakers less non-native speakers), or 0.2% of the...
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    the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in 59 sovereign...
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    The geographical distribution of speakers of Macedonian refers to the total number of native speakers of Macedonian, an East South Slavic language that...
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    are about 80,000 Dutch speakers in France; see Simpson 2009, p. 307. In French Flanders, only a remnant of 20,000 Flemish-speakers remain; see Berdichevsky...
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  • area in the provinces of North Holland, South Holland and Utrecht, it is often impossible to tell where in the country its speakers were born or raised...
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    by Dutch speakers more readily than jullie lezen or ik ga would be by Afrikaans speakers. As Afrikaans no longer has unmarked and marked forms of words...
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    French and Dutch speakers. A large French-speaking population lives around Brussels, in Flanders, and by geography are considered part of the Flemish...
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  • of Dutch. Since then, it has been necessary to rely on different sources to get the number of Dutch and French speakers in Brussels. Dutch speakers tend...
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  • native speakers' GDP), number of countries that use the language as an official language as well as those countries' geographical distribution, international...
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    18,000 speakers in the US alone (22,000 including speakers in Canada), not counting 6,000 speakers of the closely related Lakota. Most speakers live in...
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  • sources report tens of speakers. The last speakers of Berbice Dutch were found in the 1970s by Professor Ian Robertson of the University of the West Indies...
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    in an archaic form of Dutch. This was hard for Dutch speakers to understand, and increasingly unintelligible for Afrikaans speakers. C. P. Hoogehout, Arnoldus...
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    result of the German diaspora, as well as the popularity of German taught as a foreign language, the geographical distribution of German speakers (or "Germanophones")...
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    for more prosperous parts of the Netherlands. Therefore, possibly as many as 150,000 West Frisian speakers live in other Dutch provinces, particularly in...
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    Ripuarian language (category Articles containing Dutch-language text)
    of people passively understanding Ripuarian to some extent exceeds the number of active speakers by far. Speakers are centred on the German city of Köln...
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    contemporary form of) Dutch to refer to any or all of the Germanic speakers on the European mainland (e.g. the Dutch, the Frisians and the Germans). Gradually...
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  • dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually...
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    two-thirds of this figure were Dutch-speaking Hollanders, there were at least 150 Huguenots and a nearly equal number of Low German speakers. Also represented...
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    following distribution of first language speakers: Other languages spoken in South Africa not mentioned in the Constitution, include many of those already...
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    in Europe, and English has the largest number of speakers in total, including some 200 million speakers of English as a second or foreign language. (See...
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    Zeelandic (category Culture of South Holland)
    which separates it clearly from Standard Dutch. This makes mutual intelligibility with speakers of Standard Dutch difficult. In the Middle Ages and the early...
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    branches of this language family. By around 1000 BCE, there were many millions of Indo-European speakers, and they lived in a vast geographical area which...
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    Low Franconian (category Articles containing Dutch-language text)
    Until the Early Modern Period all speakers of varieties of Low Franconian used Middle Dutch or Early Modern Dutch as their literary language and Dachsprache...
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    þeodisc, meaning "(of) the common (Germanic) people". At first, the English language used Dutch to refer to any or all speakers of West Germanic languages...
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    Frisian languages (category Articles containing Dutch-language text)
    number of native Dutch speakers in the province are learning Frisian as a second language. In Germany, there are about 2,000 speakers of Saterland Frisian...
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    parts of the island of Java, Indonesia. There are also pockets of Javanese speakers on the northern coast of western Java. It is the native language of more...
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