Question: Along with Limburgish, what other Dutch dialect is spoken down into a lot of the southern Netherlands?
Answer: Brabantian

Question: What dialect is considered a sister language to Dutch?
Answer: West Frisian

Question: Which Dutch dialect is so distinct that it's often called a daughter language?
Answer: Afrikaans

Question: Afrikaans is mostly derived from the Dutch spoken in what century?
Answer: 17th

Question: The Dutch influence on Afrikaans was seasoned with languages from what country?
Answer: South Africa

Question: What two-word phrase describes the relationship whereby Dutch and Afrikaans speakers can understand each other?
Answer: mutually intelligible

Question: What percentage of people in Belgium speak Dutch?
Answer: 59%

Question: What country in Europe has the highest percentage of Dutch speakers?
Answer: the Netherlands

Question: What region in France is experiencing Dutch language death?
Answer: French Flanders

Question: What's the name of the institution that ensures Dutch is monocentric?
Answer: Dutch Language Union

Question: How many different major dialects of Dutch are there?
Answer: 28

Question: What town in Germany has always had mostly Dutch speakers?
Answer: Kleve

Question: About how many people around Calais, France speak Dutch every day?
Answer: 20,000

Question: It took until the end of what century for people in French cities like Gravelines to finally switch over to French from Dutch?
Answer: 19th

Question: Which church often preached in Flemish prior to World War I?
Answer: the Catholic Church

Question: In what area of France is Calais located?
Answer: Northeastern France

Question: In what country other than France did Dutch lose most of it usage in the 19th century?
Answer: Prussia

Question: In France and Germany, what languages will often be substituted by native speakers of Dutch dialects?
Answer: German or French

Question: In what segment of the population is the decline in usage of Dutch most prominent?
Answer: younger generations

Question: Other than France, what country does not give Dutch legal status as a language?
Answer: Germany

Question: What language did France and Prussia ban from use in education in the late 19th century?
Answer: Dutch

Question: About how many students in Belgium are studying Dutch?
Answer: 300,000

Question: How many primary school students are learning Dutch in Nord-Pas-de-Calais?
Answer: 4,550

Question: What country has the most universities offering courses in neerlandistiek?
Answer: Germany

Question: How many universities in France offer neerlandistiek courses?
Answer: 20

Question: Besides North Rhine-Westphalia, which German state has the most pupils of Dutch?
Answer: Lower Saxony

Question: For how long have there been Dutch speakers in Indonesia?
Answer: almost 350 years

Question: In what profession is Dutch often required in the Dutch East Indies?
Answer: the legal profession

Question: What institution in Jakarta still teaches Dutch?
Answer: Erasmus Language Centre

Question: About how many pupils in all of Indonesia study Dutch as part of their coursework?
Answer: 35,000

Question: In addition to students pursuing law degrees, what other course of study often includes Dutch?
Answer: history

Question: Towards the end of what century did it become important for more people in Dutch colonies to speak Dutch?
Answer: 19th

Question: What VIP segment of the population in Dutch colonies learned Dutch to participate in business and government?
Answer: local elite

Question: What was the Dutch government afraid of doing if they taught their colonies Dutch?
Answer: destabilising the colony

Question: Leaders wanted to hang onto knowledge of the Dutch language because it's the language of what?
Answer: power

Question: What became the official language of Indonesia after they declared their independence?
Answer: Malay

Question: What's the Indonesian word for "office"? 
Answer: kantor

Question: What term describes the literally translated Indonesian versions of Dutch terms that have become standard?
Answer: calques

Question: What is the Indonesian calque for the Dutch word that literally translates as "animal garden"?
Answer: kebun binatang

Question: What Dutch word for a hospital was calqued into the Indonesian "rumah sakit"?
Answer: ziekenhuis

Question: About what percentage of residents of Suriname speak Dutch?
Answer: 60

Question: What language would you hear teachers speak if you attended school in Suriname?
Answer: Dutch

Question: When did Suriname officially become independent from the Netherlands?
Answer: 1975

Question: What year did Suriname join the Dutch Language Union?
Answer: 2004

Question: What's the common language that around 20% of Suriname's people speak?
Answer: Sranan Tongo

Question: What's the year that Jersey Dutch was last spoken, according to records?
Answer: 1921

Question: What Dutch-based language popped up in the area of Albany, New York?
Answer: Mohawk Dutch

Question: What's a more accurate name for Pennsylvania Dutch since it's not a Dutch dialect?
Answer: Pennsylvania German

Question: Which Dutch dialect was once spoken in the U.S. Virgin Islands?
Answer: Negerhollands

Question: In what country were the Berbice and Skepi dialects spoken?
Answer: Guyana

Question: In what decade did European Dutch yield to the local dialect in South Africa?
Answer: 1920s

Question: At the high end, what percentage of Afrikaans words come from Dutch?
Answer: 95%

Question: What South African document from 1983 doesn't list Dutch as an official language?
Answer: constitution

Question: What section of the constitution was changed by Act 8 of 1925 to include Afrikaans with Dutch?
Answer: 137

Question: What pressure influenced the shift in South Africa from the use of European Dutch in the 1920s?
Answer: Afrikaner nationalism

Question: Who has a more difficult time understanding the other's language: Dutch speakers or Afrikaans speakers?
Answer: Afrikaans speakers

Question: Is Afrikaans more or less complex compared to Dutch?
Answer: less complex

Question: What's the Dutch word for "bird"?
Answer: vogel

Question: What is the Afrikaans word for "rain"?
Answer: reën

Question: Is it difficult or easy to estimate the number of students in South Africa who study Dutch?
Answer: difficult

Question: Approximately what percentage of South Africans are native Afrikaans speakers?
Answer: 13.5%

Question: Which country has 11% of households who speak Afrikaans?
Answer: Namibia

Question: How many of the South Africans surveyed in 1996 said they speak at least a little Afrikaans?
Answer: 40 percent

Question: About how many South Africans speak Afrikaans as their primary language?
Answer: 6.8 million

Question: Approximately how many people in the world speak Dutch as a second language?
Answer: 5 million

Question: What sound does Dutch still use from Proto-Germanic that was phased out in other Germanic languages?
Answer: velar fricatives

Question: Along with English, what pronunciation shift did Dutch not undergo?
Answer: the second consonant shift

Question: How are obstruents pronounced at the end of Dutch words?
Answer: voiceless

Question: How would you say "good" in Dutch?
Answer: goede

Question: What language other than Dutch also employs final-obstruent devoicing?
Answer: German

Question: Is the voicing of pre-vocalic initial voiceless alveolar fricatives more common in Dutch or German?
Answer: German

Question: Does the development of /ft/ to /xt/ occur more in Low German or Dutch?
Answer: Dutch

Question: What number word is spelled the same in English and Low German?
Answer: seven

Question: What's the German word for "seven"?
Answer: sieben

Question: Although spelled differently, the first consonant of what Dutch word for "seven" is pronounced the same as its German counterpart?
Answer: zeven

Question: What quality of Dutch vowels isn't usually recognized as distinctive?
Answer: length