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Dutch Website Translation
Perth Translation provides Dutch website translation for businesses, non-profit and government organisations in Australia.
As a professional translation company, we offer quality English to Dutch translation for all types of website content, including but not limited to:
- Product & service descriptions
- Advertising and marketing content
- Legal notices
We try to work with clients to deliver Dutch translation for websites in a format more preferred for implementation. If you are able to provide translation memory or glossaries from past translation, or provide the text for translation in a easy-to-use format, we will add the cost-savings into the final quote for the Dutch website translation project.
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About the Dutch Language
The Dutch language is a West Germanic language that is spoken by around 24 million people as a first language—including the population of the Netherlands and about sixty percent of Belgium—and by another 5 million as a second language.
Among the Indo-European languages, Dutch is grouped within the Germanic languages, meaning it shares a common ancestor with languages such as English, German, and the Scandinavian languages. All Germanic languages are subject to the Grimm's law and Verner's law sound shifts, which originated in the Proto-Germanic language and define the basic features differentiating them from other Indo-European languages. This is assumed to have taken place in approximately the mid-first millennium BCE in the pre-Roman Northern European Iron Age.
The Germanic languages are traditionally divided into three groups: East (now extinct), West, and North Germanic. They remained mutually intelligible throughout the Migration Period. Dutch is part of the West Germanic group, which also includes English, Scots, Frisian, Low German (Old Saxon) and High German. It is characterized by a number of phonological and morphological innovations not found in North or East Germanic. The West Germanic varieties of the time are generally split into three dialect groups: Ingvaeonic (North Sea Germanic), Istvaeonic (Weser-Rhine Germanic) and Irminonic (Elbe Germanic). It appears that the Frankish tribes fit primarily into the Istvaeonic dialect group with certain Ingvaeonic influences towards the northwest, which are still seen in modern Dutch.
