Маъсул муҳаррир: Филология фанлари доктори, профессор: Г. Х. Боқиева Тақризчилар

Derived languages
Afrikaans, a language spoken in South Africa and Namibia, is derived primarily from 16th century Dutch dialects, and a great deal of mutual intelligibility still exists.
Phonology
Dutch devoices all consonants at the ends of words (e.g. a final d sound is shifted to a t sound; to become 'ents ofworts'), which presents a problem for Dutch speakers when Learning English.
The final 'n' of the plural ending -en is often not pronounced (as in Afrikaans), except in the North East and the South West where the ending becomes a syllabic n sound.
Historical sound changes
Dutch did not participate in the second (High German) sound shifting ­compare German machen I-x-I Dutch maken, English make.
German Pfanne Ipf-I, Dutch pan, English pan, German zwei its-I, Dutch twee, English two.
Grammar
Like all other continental West Germanic languages, Dutch has a rather complicated word order that is markedly different from English, which presents a problem for Anglophones Learning Dutch. Dutch is also known for its ability to glue words together (like:
'derandjongerenhangplekkenbeleidsambtenarensalarisbesprekingsafspraken' which means 'the agreements for the salary of public servants which decide the policy for areas where unemployed youth is allowed to hang out.' Though grammatically correct, it is never done to this extent; at most two or three words are glued together.)
The Dutch grammar has simplified a lot over the past 100 years: cases are now only used for the pronouns (for example: ik = I, me = me, mij = me, mijn = my, wie = who, wiens = whose, wier = whose). Nouns and adjectives are not case inflected (except for the genitive of masculine and neuter nouns: - (e) s).
Inflection of adjectives is a little more complicated: -e with 'de' or 'het', -e with 'een' or with nothing for masculine, feminine and plural. (And with the genitive: '-en' for masculine and neuter, -er for feminine and plural.) (This genitive, however, belongs to 'form language' and normally it is simulated by use of 'van de I het I een'. When that construction is used, no inflection for the nouns and -e for the adjective.)
Dutch nouns are, however, inflected for size: -(e)(t)je for singular diminutive and -(e)(t)jes for plural diminutive.