Language · Indo-European
Dutch
Nederlands – its own name
Official or co-official in 6 countries. Listed in 9 countries.
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 33 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Latin
Where it is spoken
- Official 2
- Co-official 4
- Minority 3
Official
- Netherlands 100% 18 million
- Suriname 90% 582 thousand
Co-official
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Belgium
55%
6.6 million
The sole official language of Flanders; in Brussels alongside French.
- Aruba 97% 121 thousand
- Curaçao 8% 12 thousand
- Sint Maarten 3.4% 1.6 thousand