Wordlist of the Dutch language - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Word list of the Dutch language is a list of words in the correct official spelling

Dutch orthography

Dutch orthography uses the Latin alphabet according to a system which has evolved to suit the needs of the Dutch language. The regular relationship of graphemes to phonemes is listed in the article on Dutch language...

of the Dutch language

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

(Dutch orthography

Dutch orthography

). It is officially established by the Dutch Language Union

Dutch Language Union

The Dutch Language Union is an international institution for discussing issues regarding the Dutch language. It was founded on 9 September 1980 by the Netherlands and Belgium...

(Nederlandse Taalunie), and is published in dictionary style. Because of the colour of its published form, it is better known as the Green Booklet (het Groene Boekje). It differs from a dictionary in that it does not give the meanings of the words.

Editions

The Green Booklet is published by Sdu

SDU

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in the Netherlands and Lannoo in Flanders

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

. It is available in a paper edition and on CD-ROM

CD-ROM

A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data....

at a fee; the Dutch Language Union offers a free official internet version of the list. The latest edition was released on October 15, 2005.

History

The first publication was in 1954. A revised word list was not released until 1990. The most recent publication was in 2005, and is effective since August 1, 2006.

In 1994 the committee of Ministers of the Dutch Language Union decided that the wordlist of the Green Booklet will be updated every ten years. The 2005 edition is also the first time that Surinamese Dutch

Surinamese Dutch

Surinamese Dutch is the form of Dutch spoken in Suriname, a former Dutch colony. Dutch is spoken as a mother tongue by about 60% of the population, most of them being bilingual with Sranan Tongo, Saramaccan and other languages. Nevertheless, Dutch is the sole official language of the country...

words have been included, about 500 of them were added as was agreed upon when Suriname

Suriname

Suriname , officially the Republic of Suriname , is a country in northern South America. It borders French Guiana to the east, Guyana to the west, Brazil to the south, and on the north by the Atlantic Ocean. Suriname was a former colony of the British and of the Dutch, and was previously known as...

joined the Language Union in January 2005.

The Green Booklet should not be confused with the Green dictionary, which is also a publication of Sdu

SDU

Criticism

The Green Booklet has been criticised in recent years because of its complicated rules such as the rules on how to use an -n between certain compound words. Opponents claim that the rules are too fuzzy and are changing too fast, causing problems in education

Education

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. Teachers and pupils complain about the lack of simple rules and the many exception

Exception

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s.

In December 2005 a number of major Dutch newspapers, magazines and the broadcaster NOS

Nederlandse Omroep Stichting

The Nederlandse Omroep Stichting , English: Netherlands Broadcasting Foundation, is one of the broadcasters in the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system...

announced that they will boycott the latest edition of the Green Booklet. It is said to be too confusing, illogical and unworkable to be usable. Instead they will follow the spelling which is laid out in the White Booklet

White Booklet

Het Witte Boekje is the popular name for the Spelling Guide of Our Language , a publication of the Genootschap Onze Taal. The first edition was released in October 1998; the latest edition is the tenth and was released in 2004...

(Witte Boekje). In Flanders, media use the official Green Booklet-spelling.

Editions

History

Criticism

See also