Modern Dutch

Modern Dutch
Nieuwnederlands
Examples of Dutch notarial act from 1526 to 1536.
Region	Low Countries
Era	16th century–present
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Istvaeonic Low Franconian Modern Dutch
Early forms	Frankish Old Dutch Middle Dutch
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
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Modern Dutch (Dutch: Nieuwnederlands) is the term for variety of Dutch spoken and written since around the 1500s, this is to distinguish it from the previous phases of the languages, Middle Dutch and Old Dutch. The term Early Modern Dutch has been applied to the Dutch spoken in the 16th and 17th centuries.