Language code: nl
Technical information about ISO 639 language code nl
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The table below provides technical details for the Dutch language, designated by the nl code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Dutch Native Nederlands |
| Family | Germanic |
| Scripts | |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| Language varieties | HollandicZeelandicBrabantianFlemishSouth Guelderish |
| Related languages | AfrikaansGermanWest Frisian |
| Key facts | Source language for Afrikaans, sharing about 90 % of its vocabularyContributed many nautical words to other languages, such as “yacht” and “skipper”Standard Dutch keeps only two grammatical genders (common and neuter)The digraph “ij” is often treated as a single alphabetic unit in puzzles and indexingDiminutives are highly productive and frequent, marked mainly with the suffix “-je”. |
| Sample phrase | Hallo, hoe gaat het met je? |
| Character encodings | ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, Windows 1252, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 |
| Supported in Localizely |
Dutch belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Germanic subgroup. It is the official language in the Netherlands and Suriname and is one of the official languages in Belgium, Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, and Saba. It is written using the Latin script (Dutch alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 25 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Dutch speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
nl-AW – Dutch (Aruba)
nl-BE – Dutch (Belgium)
nl-BQ – Dutch (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba)
nl-CW – Dutch (Curaçao)
nl-NL – Dutch (Netherlands)
nl-SR – Dutch (Suriname)
nl-SX – Dutch (Sint Maarten)
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ