Hans, thanks. That's chapter 7 of the cont-enp manual on Language-Specific Issues.

Roelof 

 > Hi, I'd like my figures to have dutch captions when I write a text in

> dutch. Unfortunately, context shows my captions with the text "Figure"

> instead of "Figuur", which would be the dutch way.

>

> My code looks like this:

>

> \language[nl]

\mainlanguage[nl]

(\language is for a local switch)