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    The predominant language of the Netherlands is Dutch, spoken and written by almost all people in the Netherlands. Dutch is also spoken and official in...
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    Netherlands. The term Holland has frequently been used informally to refer to the whole of the modern country of the Netherlands in various languages...
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    with English as a recognised language. The languages spoken on the island nation are deeply influenced by the various languages in India, Europe and Southeast...
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    Languages of the Netherlands The UnDutchables "EUROPEANS AND THEIR LANGUAGES" (PDF). Ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2017-08-23. ""English in the Netherlands:...
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    the country "the Netherlands". Moreover, many languages have the same word for both the country of the Netherlands and the region of the Low Countries...
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    most of the population of the Netherlands (as one of the official languages, although not legally enshrined in the constitution) and about 60% of the population...
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    island. Aruba has two official languages: its own national language Papiamento and the Kingdom of the Netherlands' Dutch language. Curaçao, with its own constitution...
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    fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. The Frisian languages are the closest living language group to the Anglic languages; the two...
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    nation has multiple official languages. The Belgian Constitution guarantees, since the country's independence, freedom of language in the private sphere. Article...
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    65 km (40 mi) north of Venezuela. It is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Curaçao includes the main island of Curaçao and much smaller...
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    250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018...
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  • Nedersaksisch) are the Low Saxon dialects of the Low German language that are spoken in the northeastern Netherlands and are written there with local, unstandardised...
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    Demographic features of the population of the Netherlands include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the population, economic status...
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    Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen, pronounced [ˈneːdərlɑntsə ʔɑnˈtɪlə(n)] ; Papiamento: Antia Hulandes) was a constituent country of the...
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    Education in the Netherlands is characterized by division: education is oriented toward the needs and background of the pupil. Education is divided over...
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    Japanese language, Ryūkyūan languages are spoken in Okinawa and parts of Kagoshima in the Ryūkyū Islands. Along with Japanese, these languages are part of the...
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    Frisian languages are a group of closely related, though not mutually intelligible, Frisian languages of the Netherlands. Due to the marginalization of all...
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    There are twelve provinces of the Netherlands representing the administrative layer between the national government and the local governments, with responsibility...
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    2004) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980. Juliana was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin...
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    The economy of the Netherlands is a highly developed market economy focused on trade and logistics, manufacturing, services, innovation and technology...
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    Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Verenigd Koninkrijk der Nederlanden; French: Royaume uni des Pays-Bas) is the unofficial name given to the Kingdom of the...
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    Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58...
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  • Internationally, for the purposes of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, "regional or minority languages" means languages that are: traditionally...
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    The history of the Netherlands extends back long before the founding of the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon. For...
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    The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe,...
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    Germany invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940 as part of Fall Gelb (Case Yellow). On 15 May 1940, one day after the bombing of Rotterdam, the Dutch...
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    flag of the Netherlands (Dutch: de Nederlandse vlag) is a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. The current design originates as a variant of the...
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    Frisian" is only used outside the Netherlands, to distinguish this language from the closely related Frisian languages of Saterland Frisian and North Frisian...
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  • Dutch Sign Language (Dutch: Nederlandse Gebarentaal or NGT; Sign Language of the Netherlands or SLN) is the predominant sign language used by deaf people...
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    Bonaire (redirect from Languages of Bonaire)
    municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands. Its capital is the port of Kralendijk, on the west (leeward) coast of the island. Aruba, Bonaire and...
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