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. StatusWikipedia article on Dutch: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. Attested From (Year) RegionThe Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, France (Nord) 2 Classification
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Source Wikipedia: Brabantian
Flemish is a Dutch dialect cluster spoken in Flanders.
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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).
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1. Glottolog: Dutch (Glottolog languoid dutc1256)
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AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Dutch Language
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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.
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Total (L1 plus L2 speakers): 30 million (2021)
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The Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, France (Nord)
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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.
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Top family: Indo-European; immediate parent branch: West Germanic.
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First written : 9th century
Wikipedia: Flemish
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Flemish (Vlaams [vlaːms] ) is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language.
Wikipedia: Brabantian
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tian pronunciation: [ˈbrɑːbans]), is a dialect group of the Dutch language.
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