Latex complains about undefined \ProvidesLanguage

[Immanuel Litzroth]

The output from running latex on a document which has 
\usepackage[dutch]{babel}
complains about "Undefined Control sequence."
The relevant output is copied here, any have an idea what is wrong.
Immanuel


Running `LaTeX' on `analyse' with ``latex '\nonstopmode\input{analyse.ltx}'''
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2c 7.3.1)
LaTeX2e <1998/06/01>
Babel <v3.6j> and hyphenation patterns for american, dutch, loaded.

(analyse.ltx (c:/applications/TeX/texmf/tex/latex/base/report.cls
Document Class: report 1999/01/07 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(c:/applications/TeX/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(c:/applications/TeX/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(c:/applications/TeX/texmf/tex/generic/babel/dutch.ldf
! Undefined control sequence.
l.21 \ProvidesLanguage
                      {dutch}

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.21 \ProvidesLanguage{d
                        utch}
(c:/applications/TeX/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)))