In Belgium, the Netherlands and Suriname, the native official name for Dutch is Nederlands (historically Nederlandsch before the Dutch orthographic reforms). Sometimes Vlaams (" See more

Old Dutch can be discerned more or less around the same time as Old English (Anglo-Saxon), Old High German, Old Frisian, … See more

Dutch is an official language of the Netherlands proper (not enshrined in the constitution but in administrative law ), Belgium, Suriname, the Dutch Caribbean municipalities (St. Eustatius, Saba and Bonaire), Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. … See more

Dutch is grammatically similar to German, such as in syntax and verb morphology (for verb morphology in English verbs, Dutch and German, see See more

• Indo-European languages
Dutch belongs to its own West Germanic sub-group, the Low Franconian languages, paired … See more

Dutch dialects are primarily the dialects that are both related with the Dutch language and are spoken in the same language area as the … See more

For further details on different realisations of phonemes, dialectal differences and example words, see the full article at Dutch phonology See more