Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Van Dale Groot woordenboek van de Nederlandse taal, first published in 1874 and today in its 16th edition, is the best-known Dutch language dictionary. There are also two notable Dutch word lists (spelling dictionaries): het Groene Boekje, the "Green Booklet", the official Dutch orthography published by the Dutch Language Union since 1954
Flemish may refer to: Flemish, adjective for Flanders, Belgium; Flemish region, one of the three regions of Belgium; Flemish Community, one of the three constitutionally defined language communities of Belgium; Flemish dialects, a Dutch dialect cluster spoken in Flanders; Flemish people or Flemings, inhabitants of Flanders
Flemish people make up the majority of Belgians, at about 60%. Flemish was historically a geographical term, as all inhabitants of the medieval County of Flanders in modern-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands were referred to as "Flemings" irrespective of their ethnicity or language. [5]
West Flemish is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger West Flemish ( West-Vlams or West-Vloams or Vlaemsch (in French Flanders ), Dutch : West-Vlaams , French: flamand occidental ) is a collection of Low Franconian varieties spoken in western Belgium and the neighbouring areas of France and the Netherlands.
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 ...
Flemish Sign Language (Dutch: Vlaamse Gebarentaal, VGT) is a deaf sign language of Belgium. It is closely related to French Belgian Sign Language , but they are now generally recognized as distinct languages. [ 2 ]
The official language of the Flemish Region is Dutch. [9] The dialect cluster spoken in the region is sometimes colloquially referred to as Flemish ( Vlaams ), [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Flemish Dutch ( Vlaams-Nederlands ), Belgian Dutch ( Belgisch-Nederlands ), or Southern Dutch ( Zuid-Nederlands ).