2007-11-10 04:11:20 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
native language
Netherlands
Belgium
Flanders
Brussels Capital Region
Walloon muncipalities with facilities
Lowgerman area
Suriname
Aruba
Netherlands Antilles
minority language
France (French Flanders)
Germany (Low Rhine Country)
colonial (also native) language and Afrikaans
South Africa
Namibia
Indonesia.
immigrant language
Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand and U.S.A.
Total speakers: native
30 million : 23 million Dutch speakers, and 7 million Afrikaans speakers (2006)
total
44 milion (Dutch: 28 mil., Afrikaans: 16 mil.)
2007-11-10 04:28:04 · answer #1 · answered by Beardo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the Netherlands. Dutch is somewhat similar to the German language. The Netherlands is the country where people speak Dutch.
2007-11-10 04:14:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mostly the Netherlands (also called Holland).
Dutch is also spoken in Belgium and Suriname (a country in South America) Dutch also is very similar to Afrikaans, one of the languages of South Africa.
Dutch is a Germanic language, meaning it's similar to German and English.
2007-11-10 04:15:38 · answer #3 · answered by Mordent 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the Netherlands....I know, strange isn´t it? the country and the language don´t even start with the same letter..the nationality is Dutch as well ( my theory is that a long time ago someone confused it with Deutsch, the word for German in German, and got it all mixed up, but that is just my theory, I don´t know if it´s true)
PS Calling the country Holland is incorrect that´s only a part of the country
PS Dutch is also spoken in Belgium, Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao
2007-11-10 04:17:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Netherlands
2007-11-10 04:51:43 · answer #5 · answered by Leonarda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The English word "Dutch" denotes the Germanic dialect of the Netherlands. It is very similar to Flemish, which is the Germanic dialect of Belgium, and Afrikaans, which is also called Cape Dutch. The people who call their Germanic dialect "Deutsch" are called "German" in English and the people who speak the Germanic dialect called "Tütsch" are in Switzerland. Both of these terms and the English word "Dutch" are mutations of the Old Common German word "Theodisk", meaning "the language of the people", as opposed to Latin, the language of government.
2007-11-10 04:24:51 · answer #6 · answered by Jonathan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Netherlands
2007-11-10 04:21:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Holland, I have an uncle that is fluent in Dutch, he lived there for a couple years. Also there may be some islands in the caribbean where Dutch is spoken.
2007-11-10 04:20:12 · answer #8 · answered by hyrum 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Netherlands
They speak Danish in Denmark.
2007-11-10 04:14:11 · answer #9 · answered by Manuel B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Netherlands (Holland)
2007-11-10 04:21:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋