It is the official language of the Olympics. Despite its widespread use, there are only about 380 million people who use it as their mother tongue. An average educated person knows about 20,000 words and uses about 2,000 words in a week. Most loanwords from French have entered into Dutch vocabulary via the Netherlands and not via Belgium, in spite of the cultural and economic dominance exerted by French speakers in Belgium until the first half of the 20th century.Įnglish languageToday, more than 750 million people use the English language. Like English, Dutch includes words of Greek and Latin origin. Dutch vocabulary is predominantly Germanic in origin, considerably more so than English. The Dutch written grammar has simplified over the past 100 years. It has a relatively high proportion of doubled letters, both vowels and consonants.ĭutch is grammatically similar to German, such as in syntax and verb morphology. But the Dutch alphabet has one additional character beyond the standard alphabet, the digraph IJ. Dutch language Dutch uses the Latin alphabet.
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