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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. In 2012, "Je m'appelle Funny Bear" by German virtual singer Gummibär became the first French-language music video to reach 100 million views. In 2023, Indila's song "Dernière Danse" became the first music video in French to reach 1 billion views.
The term Flemish itself has become ambiguous. Nowadays, it is used in at least five ways, depending on the context. These include: An indication of Dutch written and spoken in Flanders including the Dutch standard language as well as the non-standardized dialects, including intermediate forms between vernacular dialects and the standard.
The film had its world premiere on 19 October 2012 at the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent. [2] The film is entirely spoken in Dutch and French, but English subtitles are shown. [3] It was featured at the Cork International Film Festival on 8 November 2014 in Cork, Ireland and the IN-EDIT film festival in Greece on 22 February 2015. [4]
The music, by Karel Miry (1823–1899), is apparently influenced by Robert Schumann's Sonntags am Rhein. Like France's Marseillaise , De Vlaamse Leeuw is a nationalist battle song. Franco-Belgian political tension in the mid-19th century made the Flemish public mood ripe for such an expression of regional feeling.
The traditional language of northern French Flanders , related to the Dutch language, is known as West Flemish, specifically, a subdialect known as French Flemish, spoken by around 20,000 daily speakers and 40,000 occasional users. [1]
French Flemish (Fransch vlaemsch, Standard Dutch: Frans-Vlaams, French: flamand français) is a West Flemish dialect spoken in the north of contemporary France.. Place names attest to Flemish having been spoken since the 8th century in the part of Flanders that was ceded to France at the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees, and which hence became known as French Flanders.
Both aspects of "dialects of a same language" and "French as the common langue d'oïl" appear in a text of Roger Bacon, Opus maius, who wrote in Medieval Latin but translated thus: "Indeed, idioms of a same language vary amongst people, as it occurs in the French language which varies in an idiomatic manner amongst the French, Picards, Normans ...
Position of East Flemish (colour: brown) among the other minority languages, regional languages and dialects in Belgium and the Netherlands East Flemish (Dutch: Oost-Vlaams, French: flamand oriental) is a collective term for the two easternmost subdivisions ("true" East Flemish, also called Core Flemish, [1] and Waaslandic) of the so-called Flemish dialects, native to the southwest of the ...