Dutch 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, making it the third most spoken Germanic language.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2021 estimate, first-language speakers. RegionThe Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, France (Nord) 1 Classification
Official Status Dutch
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Flemish is a Dutch dialect cluster spoken in Flanders.
Source Wikipedia: Flemish
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Source Wikipedia: Dutch Language
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Dutch (Endonym: Nederlands, 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.
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nld
Infobox, Speakers (Total)
25 million (2021)
Infobox, Region field
The Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, France (Nord)
Official status, Dutch entity page
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.
In Family: Germanic, Infobox, Language family
Top family: Indo-European; immediate parent branch: West Germanic.
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Wikimedia FoundationAncestor Of: Flemish, Lead definitions listQuote, Ancestor Of: Flemish, Lead definitions list
Flemish dialects, a Dutch dialect cluster spoken in Flanders.
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