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The Dutch language hails from West Germany and is used by more than 22 million people as their mother language. Another 5 million people use it as their second language. A majority of the native Dutch speakers are found in the Netherlands, Suriname and Belgium. Other relatively smaller groups can be found in Germany, France and many former Dutch colonies. An important point to consider in English to Dutch translations is that it is quite close to the other West Germanic languages like German, English and West Frisian.

Language translation services should take into account the following aspects of the Dutch language which would help them in ensuring excellent English to Dutch translation services.

• Dutch language originated sometime in the middle of the 5th century AD. At that time the inhabitants of Netherlands spoke, what is referred to as Old Dutch. It had come about from Lower Franconian which was a dialect of Low German.

• Quite a few Creole languages, as well as Afrikaans have their roots in Dutch. It is has been listed among the official languages of South Africa and is widely used in Namibia. This is because Dutch and Afrikaans are mutually intelligible to a large extent even though their spelling standards and dictionaries are different and they also have different language regulators. The usage of Dutch language is monitored by the Dutch Language Union. This Union coordinates the actions of the Dutch, Surinamese and Flemish authorities in regard to linguistic issues, language teaching, language policy and literature.

• Dutch is spoken in a number of dialects, among them the primary dialect is Flemish which is used in Flanders. It is different from Standard Dutch which was introduced in the 1960s from the perspective of pronunciation (softer), and use of older words. In the Netherlands and Flanders, the presence of many geographical regions has given birth to several regional dialects.

• Dutch is written using the Latin alphabet, a unique feature of the alphabet is the group of letter “3” which is used to denote “y”. The Dutch grammar includes three genders which are neuter, masculine and feminine but in general usage they are reduced to neuter and common genders. Adjectives and common nouns are not case inflected, cases being used mostly for pronouns. The frequent usage of compound words results in a wide use of doubled letters.

• Since Dutch is of Germanic origin, it has one of the richest vocabularies in the world with 190,000words.

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