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Flemish people also emigrated at the end of the fifteenth century, when Flemish traders conducted intensive trade with Spain and Portugal, and from there moved to colonies in America and Africa. [28] The newly discovered Azores were populated by 2,000 Flemish people from 1460 onwards, making these volcanic islands known as the "Flemish Islands".
[citation needed] The Gazette van Detroit was a widely distributed Flemish newspaper in Dutch and in English that was published in Detroit, Michigan, from 1914 to 2018. A number of elements demonstrate the Belgian American presence: placenames (Brussels, Namur, Rosiere, Luxemburg, Charleroi), a local French patois , common surnames, unique ...
The 2009-2013 survey estimated 141,580 people of 5 years and over to speak Dutch at home, [ 3 ] which was equal to 0.0486% of the total population of the United States. In 2021, 95.3% of the total Dutch American population of 5 years and over only spoke English at home.
Sharon Van Etten. John Vanbiesbrouck. Al Vande Weghe. Gaston Vandermeerssche. Kevin Vermaerke. David Von Ancken.
American people of Flemish descent (15 P) Pages in category "Flemish diaspora in the United States" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The Flemish Community[a] is one of the three institutional communities of Belgium, established by the Belgian constitution and having legal responsibilities only within the precise geographical boundaries of the Dutch-language area and of the bilingual area of Brussels-Capital. Unlike in the French Community of Belgium, [3] the competences of ...
Flanders (/ ˈflɑːndərz /, / ˈflæn -/ [ a ]; Dutch: Vlaanderen [ˈvlaːndərə (n)] ⓘ) [ b ] is the Dutch -speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics, and history, and ...
West Flemish is spoken by about a million people in the Belgian province of West Flanders, and a further 50,000 in the neighbouring Dutch coastal district of Zeelandic Flanders (200,000 if including the closely related dialects of Zeelandic) and 10-20,000 in the northern part of the French department of Nord. [1]