A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch: Core Vocabulary for Learners

Although The Netherlands is one of the smaller member states within the European Union, it is, at the same time, also the most densely populated with the result that it boasts a population of 16.7 million native speakers of Dutch. Following the secession in 1830 of the southern provinces of The Netherlands to form modern Belgium, there are a further 6.5 million Dutch speakers in the Flanders region of that country, and, as a result of a flourishing overseas maritime trading empire in the seventeenth century, there are almost seven million speakers of Afrikaans, a form of Dutch, as it...