“Wim Jansen, a linguistics professor at Amsterdam University, and president of the defence league, said Dutch is under mortal threat and risks sliding into second-class status as a sort of kitchen language or regional dialect.”More than 90% of the companies listed on the Amsterdam stock exchange now use English to the exclusion of Dutch as the language of business,” he said.”
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