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Belgium has 3 official languages. Belgium doesnt exist only Flanders and Wallonia as Dutch and French communites live apart.

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Belgium language border. The Flemish dialect is almost identical to the Dutch spoken across the border in the Netherlands but some differences in vocabulary have led some to refer to the language. 2015 Language Border and Linguistic Legislation in Belgium 3 Flanders all of whom were French speakers9 The government appointed only French-speaking civil servants. Many descendants of the people inhabiting these border regions still speak their ancestors languages albeit in more contemporary forms.

Language requirements for employment contracts with a cross-border dimension DLA Piper Belgium European Union December 14 2016. The language divide at the heart of a split that is tearing Belgium apart. When Belgium became an independent country in 1830 its borders included regions where numerous languagesincluding Dutch and French and variations of bothwere being spoken.

BOB Borders of Belgium. Flemish Vlaamse a purer form of Dutch close to Afrikaans in South Africa French Walloon and German around 4 in the east. Belgium straddles the border between Germanic and Romance-speaking Europe and this position is reflected in the countrys political cultural and linguistic makeup.

Currently a strict language border exists between three language regions. Belgium has one of those. In that issue of The Low Countries I bumped into a piece by Geert van Istendael about a special kind of border.

The primary language in Belgium is Dutch spoken by approximately 60 of the population. And in the east of French-speaking Wallonia there is the German-speaking community which is not a region in its own right but a language group in its own right and is therefore German-speaking despite belonging to French-speaking Wallonia. The Dutch-French Language Border in Belgium Roland Willemyns Vrije Universiteit Brussel Germaanse Talen Pleinlaan 2 B-1050 Brussels Belgium This article is restricted to a description of language border fluctuations in Belgium as far as its Dutch-French portion is concerned.

The discrimination against Dutch in the 19th century was. Whats more Belgium wouldnt exist today if that language border hadnt been established in 1963. After a brief description of the so-called.

With three major languages spoken under the same roof what can go wrong. Flanders in the north Wallonia in the south and the bilingual Brussels Region in the center of the country. An Introduction 1 Luc van DurmeGenesis and Evolution of the Romance-Germanic Language Border in Europe 9 Hugo RyckeboerDutchFlemish in the North of France 22 Roland WillemynsThe Dutch-French Language Border in Belgium 36 Jeanine Treffers-DallerLanguage Use and Language Contact in Brussels 50.

2015 Language Border and Linguistic Legislatio n in Belgium 5 speaking Wallonia unilingually German-speaking areas and the bilingual area of Brussels.

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