Dutch

Dutch is the official language of the Netherlands, Belgium (called Flemish), Netherlands Antilles, Indonesia, and parts of France and Germany. It did not go through the High German Consonant Shift so many of the vocabulary in it still resemble other related languages such as Low German and even English.

Dutch Nederlands
Spoken in:	Netherlands (Nederland)
Conworld:	Real world
Total speakers:	23 million native.
Genealogical classification:	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic      Dutch
Basic word order:	SVO,
Morphological type:	Inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment:	nominative-accusative
Writing system:
Created by:
unknown	16th century C.E,

Dutch Phonology and Orthography

Consonants

Consonants
	Bilabial		Labiod.		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m				n		ɲ				ŋ
Plosive	p	b			t	d					k	g
Fricative			f	v	s	z	ʃ			ç	x	(ɣ)	h
Approximants				ʋ						j
Trill						r
Lateral Approximant						l

• Most Dutch consonants are pronounced the same way as their IPA equivalents: b, p, j, f, k, z, m, n, h, s, t, d, l and r.
• sj is pronounced /ʃ/.
• g and ch is pronounced /x/. g can sometimes be realised as /ɣ/.
• sch is pronouced /sx/ and not /ʃ/ as in German.
• w is pronounced as /ʋ/.
• v is sometimes pronounced /f/.
• Dutch has final devoicing. This means that all voiced consonants with voiceless forms become those voiceless forms, at the end of the word.

Grammar

Nouns

Gender

Dutch historically had three genders, much the way High German still does. However, most of the Masculine and Feminine nouns merged into a Common gender. This leaves Common and Neuter, which are the two genders of Dutch today.