Spoken in Belgium, Flemish is a variant of Dutch that has developed its own cultural and linguistic features.
Flemish
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Classification
Indo-European > Germanic
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Speakers
6.5 million
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Script
Roman
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Text direction
Left-to-right
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Official language
Belgium
Flemish
Flemish is part of the West Germanic language group alongside German. Flemish is the variety of Dutch spoken in Belgium by 60% of the population. It is one of the three official languages of Belgium alongside French and German.
There are slight differences when comparing Flemish and Dutch from Netherlands in terms of pronunciation, grammar and terminology.
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Interesting fact
Technically speaking, Flemish refers to the people, culture and region of Flanders, rather than the language spoken there, as the "Flemish" languages are actually dialects of Dutch.
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