Languages

Dutch

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Dutch." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/dutch.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Dutch. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/dutch

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-dutch,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Dutch},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/dutch},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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.

Facts

ISO 639-3 Code

nld 1

Speaker Count

25,000,000 1

2021 estimate, first-language speakers.

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Family

Germanic

Source Wikipedia: Dutch Language

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Dutch Language

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Quote, Lead section

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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1. Wikipedia: Dutch Language

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