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Dutch alphabet
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Dutch orthography.
Alphabet
The modern Dutch alphabet, used for the Dutch language, consists of the 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Depending on how ⟨y⟩ is used, six (or five) letters are vowels and 20 (or 21) letters are consonants. In some aspects, the digraph⟨ij⟩ behaves as a single letter. ⟨e⟩ is the most frequently used letter in the Dutch alphabet, as it is in English. The least frequently used letters are ⟨q⟩ and ⟨x⟩, similar to English.