Scientific journal
European Student Scientific Journal
ISSN 2310-3094

VARIATION OF LITERARY LANGUAGE IN THE NETHERLANDS AND BELGIUM

Gurova Yu.I. 1 Kuznetsova N.A. 1
1 Saint Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences
In this article there is researched a problem of variation literary norms of Netherlands language. The History of the Dutch Language had three periods – Ancient Netherlandish, Middle Netherlandish and New Netherlandish period. Our research has shown that there were many dialects in the modern Netherlands language. The modern Dutch language was divided into 6 groups of dialects. Dutch language occupies an intermediate position between the English and German languages. As a result we made observations that language was changed and there were differences of literary language not only in different parts of the Netherlands, but also in other countries.
specificity of language
norm
dialect
literary language