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RR 2014/220 A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch: Core Vocabulary for Learners Carole Tiberius and Tanneke Schoonheim Routledge London 2014 x + 299 pp. ISBN 978 0 415 52379 0 (hbck); ISBN 978 0 415 52386 0 (pbck); ISBN 978 1 315 85748 0 (e-book); ISBN 978 0 415 82051 6 (CD-ROM) £95 $152 (hbck); £26.99 $43.95 (pbck); £82.50 $160 (CD-ROM)
Routledge Frequency Dictionaries
Keywords Dictionaries, Dutch language
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-05-2014-0121
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 modem 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 was spoken in the seventeenth century, in South Africa and Namibia, whilst Dutch is still the official language in a number of countries in the Caribbean area, such as Suriname, Aruba and Curacao. Moreover, despite the bitter struggles of many former Dutch colonies in Asia to...