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Revision as of 18:47, March 9, 2008
Dutch (Nederlands) is the main language of the Netherlands, and one of the official languages of Belgium, alongside French.
Dutch is a Germanic language. Of all the members of the Germanic family, it is perhaps the closest to English in sentence structure and syntax.
The Afrikaans language in South Africa is descended from the Dutch of 17th-century Dutchmen who settled there.