Flemish
Flemish
is the territorial name for the Dutch language spoken in historic Flanders,
a region mostly comprising the northern part of Belgium, but also including a
southern part of the Netherlands and a small area of northern France. The
language is officially called Dutch by the governments of Belgium and the
Netherlands, but the people living in the historic Flanders region still often
use the term Flemish because of its historical and sociocultural
connotations. There are about 5,500,000 speakers in Belgium and the
language varies only slightly from Dutch.
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