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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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    simply as the Netherlands, is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united under the monarch of the Netherlands, who functions...
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    In the Netherlands, the English language can be spoken by the vast majority of the population, with estimates of English proficiency reaching 90% to 93%...
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    live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. The Frisian languages are the closest living language group to the Anglic...
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    The West Frisian languages are a group of closely related, though not mutually intelligible, Frisian languages of the Netherlands. Due to the marginalization...
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    is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (or 60% of the population of Belgium). In South America, it is the native...
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    form for 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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  • of proficiency. The Netherlands recognizes Dutch Low Saxon as a regional language under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. The classification...
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    The main languages spoken in Sri Lanka are Tamil and Sinhala. Several languages are spoken in Sri Lanka within the Indo-Aryan, Austronesian, and Dravidian...
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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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    by various regional languages (such as Javanese, Sundanese, Minangkabau, Balinese, Banjarese, Buginese, etc.) and foreign languages (such as Arabic, Dutch...
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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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    Demographic features of the population of the Netherlands include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the population, economic status...
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    November 1962) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, making her the longest-reigning monarch...
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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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    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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  • macrolanguage of the Romani communities. According to Ethnologue, seven varieties of Romani are divergent enough to be considered languages of their own. The largest...
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    member of the Dutch royal house who reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013. Beatrix was born during the reign of her...
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    constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The country consisted of several island territories located in the Caribbean Sea. The islands were also...
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    The national flag of the Netherlands (Dutch: de Nederlandse vlag) is a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. The current design originates as a...
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    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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    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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  • Television in the Netherlands was officially introduced in 1951. In the Netherlands, the television market is divided between a number of commercial networks...
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    Community of Belgium as well as the Netherlands officially recognise some Ripuarian dialects as minority languages, and the European Union likewise follows...
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    The United Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Verenigd Koninkrijk der Nederlanden; French: Royaume uni des Pays-Bas) is the unofficial name given to the...
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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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    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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    by the Netherlands as regional languages according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Another Dutch dialect granted the status...
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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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