Dutch (About this sound Nederlands ) is a West Germanic language and the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and about sixty percent of the populations of Belgium and Suriname the three member states of the Dutch Language Union.
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ISO 639-1 code
nl
family
Germanic languages, Low Franconian languages, West Germanic languages
language regulator or academy
Dutch Language Union
spoken in
Aruba, Belgium, Netherlands, South America, Suriname, Curaçao, Western Europe, France, Caribbean, Sint Maarten
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