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Language code: nld

Technical information about ISO 639 language code nld

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The table below provides technical details for the Dutch, Flemish language, designated by the nld code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

nld (Terminology)

Standard

ISO 639-2, ISO 639-3

Name

Official

Dutch, Flemish

Native

Nederlands

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
HollandicBrabantianZeelandicWest FlemishEast FlemishLimburgishDutch Low Saxon
Related languages
AfrikaansGermanWest FrisianLow GermanLuxembourgish
Key facts
Belongs to the West Germanic branch of the Indo-European familyIts standardized form began to crystallize during the 17th-century Dutch Golden AgeThe digraph “ij” was historically treated as a single letter and still has distinct collation rulesDutch vocabulary contributed nautical terms like “yacht” and “skipper” to global EnglishCompounding is productive, allowing very long single-word expressions such as “meervoudigepersoonlijkheidsstoornis.”
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

The Dutch, Flemish language, identified by the code nld, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

The ISO 639-2 standard offers two codes for the Dutch, Flemish language: nld for terminology purposes and dut for bibliographic uses.

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