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						Dutch and Flemish are two names for standard Netherlandic, a West Germanic language totalling some 20 million speakers, most of which live in The Netherlands and in Belgium. In turn, Netherlandic is a Low German (more exactly a Low Franconian) language. Afrikaans, a language spoken in South Africa, derives from Dutch. Dutch literature evolved from the Middle Ages. While The Netherlands had their Golden Age during the 17th c., Flemish literature stagnated under French rule and revived only in the 19th c. Since then, Dutch and Flemish literature have followed all European literary movements. In comparison to German, Dutch is quite a simplified language. Dutch pronouns are, but nouns and adjetives are virtually not case inflected.
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