Languages Dutch is the sole official language, and is the language of education, government, business, and the media.

The official national language of the Netherlands is Dutch, spoken by almost all people in the Netherlands.

In 2004 Suriname became an associate member of the Dutch Language Union.

See Gender in Dutch grammar for more details.

40,000 copies were released in French, and 20,000 in Dutch.

Dutch is a West Germanic language, that originated from the Old Frankish dialects.

Dutch is the official language of the Flemish Region (where it is the mother tongue of about 97 of the population) and one of the two official languages along with French of the Brussels Capital Region.

SOA stands for Seksueel Overdraagbare Aandoeningen' (Sexually Transmitted Diseases).

If you don't know Dutch and you only know English and I give you some words in Dutch, you'll tell me that these words contain some very unusual patterns.

A linguistic reform in 1823 intended to make Dutch the official language in the Flemish provinces, since it was the language of most of the Flemish population.

Several dialects of Dutch Low Saxon ( Nederlands Nedersaksisch in Dutch) are spoken in much of the north east of the country and are recognised as regional languages according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

Zaans is a dialect of Dutch spoken in the Zaan district, which lies north of Amsterdam, in the Dutch province of North Holland.

(Around 23 of Belgium's population is of non Belgian origin)The exact number of French speakers in Brussels is hard to determine, but it is estimated that 77 of the people living in Brussels use French and 16 use Dutch in their households, as the sole language or secondary language, while Arabic is also largely spoken.

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Dutch (oral, reading).

Amsterdam's merchants had the largest share in both the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company.

In 1637 he was employed by the Dutch West India Company in Dutch Brazil, first as a soldier and then as a writer.

Dutch policy on established immigrants

Acknowledgement of paternity and the Netherlands Nationality Act

The Dutch East Indies (or Netherlands East Indies ) was a Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II.

The Netherlands Nationality Act also gives minor children improved status in the granting of Dutch nationality by means of naturalisation.

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So Dutch embassies are bracing themselves for violent demonstrations, and the government is considering special security measures.

This kind of influence of the first language on the second is known as negative language transfer.

For more information, see Dutch orthography.

But now the Social Democrats in the Dutch coalition government have declared that enough is enough. The Dutch troops will have to come home.

In the period 1999 2004, the Dutch government set aside a special budget for language and integration programmes for members of ethnic minority groups who have been in the Netherlands for some time and are still having difficulty becoming integrated into Dutch society.

Under the Netherlands Nationality Act, a person above the age of eighteen who is acknowledged as the child of an Aruban does not immediately acquire Dutch nationality.

Language The official language of Jamaica is English.

Are you in anyway related to the Dutch government?

Five universities in the United Kingdom offer the study of Dutch.

This allowed the Dutch to monitor the Chinese more easily.

Source Statistics Netherlands (census) 2001.

The main language is colloquial Swahili, and the English language is extensively taught in schools.

Official status Swedish is officially the main language of Sweden.

The Cultivation System (), or less accurately the Culture System, was a Dutch government policy in the mid nineteenth century for its Dutch East Indies colony (now Indonesia).

Despite this correspondence between standard Dutch and the Dutch spoken in the Randstad, there are local variations within Holland itself that differ from standard Dutch.

Sociolinguistics differs from sociology of language in that the focus of sociolinguistics is the effect of the society on the language, while the sociology of language focuses on language's effect on the society.

The Dutch army was used throughout the Dutch Empire.

About 10,000 students worldwide study Dutch at university.