Language code: nl

Technical information about ISO 639 language code nl

Technical information about nl language code (Dutch) is available below.

ISO code

nl

Language

Official

Dutch

Native

Nederlands

Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

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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

Speakers

6.8K

*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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