are the dutch germanic
dutch is a west germanic language with about 20 million speakers mainly in the netherlands and belgium there are small dutch speaking communities in northern france around dunkerque and dutch is also spoken in aruba the netherlands antilles suriname and in indonesia dutch is a germanic language spoken in numerous european territories countries that speak dutch as a native language are belgium netherlands and suriname there are smaller communities as well in france and germany as well as many former colonies of the dutch that use it as a first language dutch is a member of the west germanic family tree and as such is a cousin of english and german and a sibling to afrikaans another cousin is frisian a regional minority language spoken in the north of the netherlands denmark and germany dutch is spoken in the netherlands and the flemish part of belgium german is spoken in germany aust ria parts of switzerland luxembourg and liechtenstein no dutch is not the same as german dutch is a part of the germanic language family which means much of it came from the same ancestral language as german still the l anguages are not the same english also came from that language family but dutch is closer dutch nederlands dutch is a west germanic language with about 20 million speakers mainly in the netherlands and belgium there are small dutch speaking communities in northern france around dunkerque and dutch is also spoken in aruba the netherlands antilles suriname and in indonesia what usually makes the confusion between german and dutch is that the word german in german language is deutsch pronounced doitsh this word deutsch got corrupted in english becoming dutch and eventually started to mean something or someone form the netherlands some say that dutch has an overlay of german likeness due to linguistic influence but that on a basic level dutch is more like english while others say that dutch is more like german because like german it is a verb second language and sends the finite verb to the end of the sentence in subordinate clauses in german and french and even in russian they are called german hollaender holländer niederlaender niederländer french les hollandais russian gollantskij as you can see all these words are derived from the dutch word holland strictly spoken even holland is wrong introduction dutch is part of the germanic branch of the indo european language family it is therefore closely related to english german and the scandinavian languages dutch is spoken as a mother tongue by about 23 million people in the netherlands parts of belgium and in the former dutch colonies
Yes.