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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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    Community of Belgium, alongside related Oïl languages of the region such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois, and Lorrain (Gaumais). The French language spoken...
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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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    Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the...
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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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  • 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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    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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    population of Belgium (as one of three official languages) speak Dutch. Outside the Low Countries, Dutch is the native language of the majority of the population...
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    Belgians (Dutch: Belgen; French: Belges; German: Belgier pronounced [ˈbɛlɡi̯ɐ] ) are people identified with the Kingdom of Belgium, a federal state in...
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  • or related to, Belgium Belgians, people from Belgium or of Belgian descent Languages of Belgium, languages spoken in Belgium, such as Dutch, French,...
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  • original "superior unity", which made it a language. The phonological divisions of regional languages of southern Belgium were studied by the contemporary linguist...
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    relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) largely supplanted...
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    Germanic languages, namely Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Scots. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the...
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    nine of the eleven municipalities of Eupen-Malmedy. The primary language of the community is German, making this the third official language in Belgium. Traditionally...
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    Gallo-Romance languages (Langues d'oïl 1.25%, Occitan 1.33%). Some of these languages are also spoken in neighbouring countries, such as Belgium, Germany,...
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    the northern half of France, southern Belgium, and the Channel Islands. They belong to the larger category of Gallo-Romance languages, which also include...
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    elements of grammar are unique to Ripuarian and do not exist in the other languages of Germany.[citation needed] The French Community of Belgium as well...
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    countries by origin of the population of Belgium in 2020[citation needed] Belgium's three official languages are Dutch, spoken by about 60% of the population...
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    regional language in Wallonia, a region of Belgium. Champenois is considered an endangered language by the UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages. The language...
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    over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue), one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languages of Africa belong...
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  • significant enough to treat them as two separate languages within the Central Zone (Hindustani) group of languages. The Dom and the Rom therefore likely descend...
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    the Dutch language (or Netherlandish). Most dialects and languages included within the category are spoken in the Netherlands, northern Belgium (Flanders)...
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    is a language (often referred to as patois) spoken by now a minority of people in Lorraine in France, small parts of Alsace and in Gaume in Belgium. It...
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    ) is a langue d'oïl of the Romance language family spoken in the northernmost of France and parts of Hainaut province in Belgium. Administratively, this...
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  • Thumbnail for Coat of arms of Belgium
    The coat of arms of Belgium bears a lion or, known as Leo Belgicus (Latin for the Belgian lion), as its charge. This is in accordance with article 193...
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  • Belgian Sign Language (French: Langue des signes de Belgique francophone; LSFB) is the deaf sign language of the French language Community of Belgium...
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  • on Belgium's three official languages or their dialects. Various criteria, including the language(s) of parents, of education, or the second-language status...
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    For most of its history, what is now Belgium was either a part of a larger territory, such as the Carolingian Empire, or divided into a number of smaller...
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