<P> Dutch immigrants also exported the Dutch language . Dutch was spoken by some settlers in the United States as a native language from the arrival of the first permanent Dutch settlers in 1615, surviving in isolated ethnic pockets until about 1900, when it ceased to be spoken except by first generation Dutch immigrants . The Dutch language nevertheless had a significant impact on the region around New York . For example, the first language of American president Martin Van Buren was Dutch . Most of the Dutch immigrants of the 20th century quickly began to speak the language of their new country . For example, of the inhabitants of New Zealand, 0.7% say their home language is Dutch, despite the percentage of Dutch heritage being considerably higher . </P> <P> Dutch is currently an official language of the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, Aruba, Sint Maarten, Curaçao, the European Union and the Union of South American Nations (due to Suriname being a member). In South Africa, Afrikaans is spoken, a daughter language of Dutch, which itself was an official language of South Africa until 1983 . The Dutch, Flemish and Surinamese governments coordinate their language activities in the Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union), an institution also responsible for governing the Dutch Standard language, for example in matters of orthography . </P> <P> The origins of the word Dutch go back to Proto - Germanic, the ancestor of all Germanic languages, * theudo (meaning "national / popular"); akin to Old Dutch dietsc, Old High German diutsch, Old English þeodisc and Gothic þiuda all meaning "(of) the common (Germanic) people". As the tribes among the Germanic peoples began to differentiate its meaning began to change . The Anglo - Saxons of England for example gradually stopped referring to themselves as þeodisc and instead started to use Englisc, after their tribe . On the continent * theudo evolved into two meanings: Diets (meaning "Dutch (people)" (archaic) and Deutsch (German, meaning "German (people)"). At first the English language used (the contemporary form of) Dutch to refer to any or all of the Germanic speakers on the European mainland (e.g. the Dutch, the Frisians and the - various - Germans). Gradually its meaning shifted to the Germanic people they had most contact with, both because of their geographical proximity, but also because of the rivalry in trade and overseas territories: the people from the Republic of the Netherlands, the Dutch . </P> <P> In the Dutch language, the Dutch refer to themselves as Nederlanders . Nederlanders derives from the Dutch word "Neder", a cognate of English "Nether" both meaning "low", and "near the sea" (same meaning in both English and Dutch), a reference to the geographical texture of the Dutch homeland; the western portion of the North European Plain . Although not as old as Diets, the term Nederlands has been in continuous use since 1250 . </P>

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