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The Word list of the Dutch language (Dutch: Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal [ˈʋoːrdə(n)ˌlɛist ˈneːdərlɑntsə ˈtaːl]) is a spelling dictionary of the Dutch language (Dutch orthography). It is officially established by the Dutch Language Union ( Nederlandse Taalunie ).
Depending on how y is used, six (or five) letters are vowels and 20 (or 21) letters are consonants. In some aspects, the digraph ij behaves as a single letter. e is the most frequently used letter in the Dutch alphabet, as it is in English. The least frequently used letters are q and x , similar to English.
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Dutch allophones of rounded monophthongs, from Collins & Mees (2003:98, 130, 132, 134). Black vowels occur before /r/ in Northern Standard Dutch and Randstad Dutch, and the blue vowel occurs before /ŋ/. [30] Dutch vowels can be classified as lax and tense, [31] checked and free [32] or short and long. [33]
That practice has long been deprecated, since 1804, and the standard Dutch alphabet has the letter ij in the alphabet between the "x" and the "z". The letter "y" is not part of the Dutch alphabet, but commonly used in loan words and archaic names. [4] In scientific disciplines such as mathematics and physics, the symbol y is usually pronounced ...
The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!
The uninflected form of an adjective is implicitly also an adverb. This makes it hard at times to distinguish adjectives and adverbs in Dutch. Dat is een snelle auto. De auto rijdt snel. ("That is a fast car. The car drives fast.") Wij werden vriendelijk begroet door die vriendelijke mensen. ("We were kindly welcomed by those kind people.")