Speaker Numbers

International Speaker Numbers according to

EGIDS (Ethnologue)	Source	UNESCO	Source	ELCAT (Endangered Languages Project)	Source
22 800		Site under maintenance (will be updated)		20 000

National Speaker Numbers

Country	Language	National Speaker Number	Bases for Calculation	Year	Source
Netherlands	Dutch Sign Language (NGT)	Approx. 15 000 (not a census)	Language used	2026 (Website accessed)

Endangerment

International Endangerment according to

UNESCO	Source	ELCAT (Endangered Languages Project)	Source
Site under maintenance (will be updated)		Vulnerable

National Endangerment according to EGIDS (Ethnologue)

Country	Language	Endangerment Level	Source
Netherlands	Dutch Sign Language (NGT)	5 (Developing)

Pan-National Official Language in

Netherlands