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    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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    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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