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Also known as Dutch language, Netherlandic, Netherlandic language, Netherlandish, Netherlandish language

West Germanic language

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Dutch, also known as Nederlands, Hollands, or Vlaams, is a Low Franconian language that replaced Middle Dutch. It is indigenous to the Province of Antwerp, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, and the Flemish Region. The language is spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, and France. It is regulated by the Dutch Language Union and uses capitalization for proper nouns.

The language exhibits subject–object–verb syntax with V2 word order and a nominative–accusative structure. It follows a time–manner–place sequence and possesses grammatical gender including common, neuter, masculine, and feminine forms. Dutch utilizes indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods, along with present and past tenses. It employs nominative, accusative, and dative cases. The language is named after theodisk and the Low Countries.

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Dutch (Endonym: Nederlands [ˈneːdərlɑnts] , Nederlandse taal) is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (which includes 60% of the population of Belgium). Dutch was one of the official languages of South Africa until 1925, when it was replaced by Afrikaans, a separate but partially mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans, depending on the definition used, may be considered a sister language, spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, and evolving from Cape Dutch dialects.

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