ISO 639-3 · nldnld
Indo-European family
Dutch
Nederlands
Dutch is a language of the Low Franconian branch (Indo-European), spoken in Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and Kingdom of the Netherlands and 5 more countries. Wikidata counts 23.1 m first-language speakers (2019). Wikidata describes it as “West Germanic language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
nld- ISO 639-1
nl- Glottocode
dutc1256- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- Centre point
- 52.00, 5.00
- Wikipedia
- 257 language editions
23.1 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
9countries
3scripts
6levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Dutch · Nederlands |
|---|---|
| Also called | Dutch language, Netherlandic, Netherlandic language, Netherlandish, Netherlandish language |
| L1 speakers | 23,100,000 (2019) |
| Written in | Dutch alphabet, Dutch six-dot Braille, Dutch eight-dot Braille |
| Official in | Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname |
| Grammatical cases | 3 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 8 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Dutch
The branches above Dutch, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Arubaofficial · 4 languages in the indexCuraçaoofficial · 3 languages in the indexSint Maartenofficial · 4 languages in the indexKingdom of the Netherlandsofficial · 3 languages in the indexBelgiumofficial · 13 languages in the indexSurinameofficial · 14 languages in the indexFrance84 languages in the indexGermany36 languages in the index