Hence, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as Cape Dutch (a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers) or kitchen Dutch (a derogatory term used to refer to Afrikaans in its earlier days).
Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes.
So, Ethereum is a mining network, but it's also a kind of operating system, on which cryptocurrency 'apps' can run. People write those apps using a programming language designed by the Ethereum team. Then they publish it on the system, in the form of a 'contract'.