Dutch
Dutch is spoken
by the inhabitants of the Netherlands, and is also the official language of
Surinam in South America, and of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.
It is also spoken in northern Belgium but there the language is generally
referred to as Flemish.
13,400,000 in the Netherlands, 90,000 in
France, 101,000 in Germany, 159,000 in Canada, 5,600,000
in Belgium , 425,000 in USA, 50,000 in Australia; 2000, 1,000 or more in
Suriname, 20,000,000 or more in all countries.
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