Short answers, pulled from the story.
The earliest recorded use of the word teudiscus appears in 786 when the Bishop of Ostia wrote to Pope Adrian I about a synod taking place in Corbridge. This document described decisions written down as in Latin as well as common vernacular using the specific Germanic term.
The Salic law document written around five hundred ten contains the oldest recorded Dutch sentence meaning I say to you I free you serf used to free a serf. Another fragment dating approximately seven seventy-six through eight zero zero from Utrecht baptismal vow reads A fish was swimming in water Forsake you devil.
Dutch is spoken by about twenty-five million people as a first language with five million more speaking it as a second or third language. The native population majority resides in the Netherlands and Flanders including sixty percent of the Belgian population.
Hollandic dominates national broadcast media within the Netherlands while Flemish Brabantian dominates capacity making unofficial prestige dialects in respective countries. These two forms serve as standard authorized by the Dutch Language Union based on the Green Booklet dictionary.
Afrikaans became one of the official languages alongside English in ninety-eight-three following pressure from Afrikaner nationalism and local African preferences for European-based standards. The first newspaper Die Afrikaanse Patriot published in Cape Colony eighteen seventy-six marked early development before this constitutional recognition.