Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p 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. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second language for another 5 million people.Dutch also holds official status in the Caribbean island nations of Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten, while Dutch or dialects assigned to it continue to be spoken, in parts of France and Germany, and to a lesser extent, in Indonesia, and up to half a million native Dutch speakers may be living in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa have been standardised into Afrikaans, a partially mutually intelligible daughter language which today is spoken by an estimated total of 15 to 23 million people in South Africa and Namibia.Dutch is closely related to German and English and is said to be between them. While Dutch has a similar word order to that of German, having a grammatical gender, and a largely Germanic vocabulary, it has however —like English— not undergone the High German consonant shift, has mostly abandoned the grammatical case system, does not use Germanic umlaut as a grammatical marker, and has levelled much of its morphology. Dutch has three grammatical genders, but this distinction has fewer grammatical consequences than in German. Dutch shares with German the use of Modal particles and the use of subject–verb–object word order in main clauses and subject–object–verb in subordinate clauses The view about mutual intelligibility between Dutch and German varies. Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic and contains the same Germanic core as German and English, while incorporating more Romance loans than German and fewer than English.. }
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- Dutch_language abstract "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. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second language for another 5 million people.Dutch also holds official status in the Caribbean island nations of Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten, while Dutch or dialects assigned to it continue to be spoken, in parts of France and Germany, and to a lesser extent, in Indonesia, and up to half a million native Dutch speakers may be living in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa have been standardised into Afrikaans, a partially mutually intelligible daughter language which today is spoken by an estimated total of 15 to 23 million people in South Africa and Namibia.Dutch is closely related to German and English and is said to be between them. While Dutch has a similar word order to that of German, having a grammatical gender, and a largely Germanic vocabulary, it has however —like English— not undergone the High German consonant shift, has mostly abandoned the grammatical case system, does not use Germanic umlaut as a grammatical marker, and has levelled much of its morphology. Dutch has three grammatical genders, but this distinction has fewer grammatical consequences than in German. Dutch shares with German the use of Modal particles and the use of subject–verb–object word order in main clauses and subject–object–verb in subordinate clauses The view about mutual intelligibility between Dutch and German varies. Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic and contains the same Germanic core as German and English, while incorporating more Romance loans than German and fewer than English.".