The Kingdom of Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French, and German. A number of non-official, minority languages and dialects are spoken as...
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Belgium is a federal state comprising three communities and three regions that are based on four language areas. For each of these subdivision types, the...
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Flemish dialects (redirect from Dutch language of Belgium)
attached. Belgium portal Language portal Belgian French Dutch in Belgium French Flemish, the West Flemish dialect as spoken in France Languages of Belgium Zeelandic...
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alongside related Oïl languages of the region such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois, and Lorrain (Gaumais). The French language spoken in Belgium differs very little...
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concerning the use of official languages in Belgium. A factor in the Belgian Revolution of the 1830s was the rising dominance of the Dutch language in the southern...
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Luxembourg and Germany.Gordon, Raymond G. Jr., ed. (2005). "Languages of Belgium". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (Fifteenth ed.). Dallas, Texas, U.S.: SIL...
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three official languages in Belgium. Traditionally the community and the wider area around it forms an intersection of various local languages and/or dialects...
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language, since the colonial period, is French, one of the languages of Belgium. Four other languages, three of them Bantu based, have the status of national...
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spoke different languages. It is furthermore supported by toponyms in present-day Belgium, which, according to Kuhn, point at the existence of an Indo-European...
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The Dutch language used in Belgium can also be referred to as Flemish Dutch or Belgian Dutch (Dutch: Vlaams Nederlands, Belgisch Nederlands). Dutch is...
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