Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 93. Chapters: Dutch phonology, Hindustani, Low Franconian languages, Urdu, Afrikaans, Standard Hindi, Bollywood, Hindi-Urdu, Dutch language, Hindi-Urdu grammar, Javanese language, Limburgish language, Old Dutch, Hindi-Urdu phonology, Maastrichtian dialect, Tiriyo language, Schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages, Names for the Dutch language, Hindi-Urdu controversy, Urdu alphabet, Arawakan languages, History of Hindustani, Dutch dialects, History of Dutch, Hindustani orthography, Saramaccan language, Southeast Limburgish dialect, Low Dietsch dialects, Uddin and Begum Urdu-Hindustani Romanization, B-Positive, Hindustani word etymology, Bergish dialects, Sranan Tongo, Carib language, Aluku, Rhinelandic, Ndyuka language, Low Bergish, S. H. Bihari, Hebban olla vogala, Hard and soft G in Dutch, South Guelderish, Aab-e hayat, Surinamese Dutch, Sansiboli language, East Bergish, Western Hindi, Sittard dialect, Warao language, Kwinti people, Sikiana language, Paramaccan people, Dishoom, Tuzk. Excerpt: Dutch (.)) is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second language for another 5 million people. It also holds official status in the Caribbean island nations of Aruba, Curacao, and Sint-Maarten, while historical minorities remain in parts of France and Germany, and to a lesser extent, in Indonesia, and up to 600,000 native Dutch-speakers may be living in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa have been standardised into Afrikaans, a mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch which today is spoken to some degree by an estimated total of 15 to 23 million pe...