Category: LanguagePart of speech: nounDifficulty: Common
taal
/taal/Roman
English meaning: Language
Dutch Definition
(Nederlands)Een systeem van gestructureerde communicatie door middel van woorden, klanken en grammatica.
English Definition
A system of human communication. Dutch (Nederlands) is spoken by 24 million people and is a West Germanic language closely related to German and English. Afrikaans — spoken in South Africa — is a daughter language of Dutch. Dutch linguistic influence from the colonial era left traces in Indonesian, Surinamese, and South African languages.
Example
“Het Nederlands wordt gesproken door ongeveer 24 miljoen mensen.”
In English: “Dutch is spoken by approximately 24 million people.”
Synonyms
- idioom
- spraak
Literary Heritage
“In magnis et voluisse sat est.”
“In great matters, to have wished it is enough.”
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Language information
- Language
- Nederlands
- Dutch
- Script
- Latin
- Family
- Germanic
- Speakers
- 25M