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Therefore, the year 1996 is mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-seize in Parisian French, but it is mille neuf cent nonante-six in Belgian French. In Switzerland, "80" can be quatre-vingts (Geneva, Neuchâtel, Jura) or huitante (Vaud, Valais, Fribourg). Twenty (tyve) is used as a base number in the Danish names of tens from 50 to 90.
Belgian French (French: français de Belgique) is the variety of French spoken mainly among the French Community of Belgium, alongside related Oïl languages of the region such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois, and Lorrain (Gaumais). The French language spoken in Belgium differs very little from that of France or Switzerland.
A telephone number in Belgium is a sequence of nine or ten digits dialed on a telephone to make a call on the Belgian telephone network. Belgium is under a full number dialing plan , meaning that the full national number must be dialed for all calls, while it retains the trunk code, '0', for all national dialling.
Dutch is the most spoken primary language of Belgium and the official language of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region (merged to Flanders). Along with French, it is an official language of the Brussels-Capital Region. The main Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium are Brabantian, West Flemish, East Flemish, and Limburgish.
The expression huitante (80) may not be used in Belgian French, but what about octante? Peter Horn 22:12, 4 July 2006 (UTC)--Peter Horn 22:17, 4 July 2006 (UTC) Nope, Belgians use only quatre-vingts (but there is apparently an equivalent of huitante in Walloon: ûtante). Lesgles 06:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
The Belgian Revolution in the Grand-Place in front of the Town Hall. Painting entitled Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830 by Wappers. After the Belgian Revolution, the bourgeoisie in Brussels began to increasingly use French. Numerous French and Walloon immigrants moved to Brussels, and for the first time in mass numbers the Flemish ...
French Albums [7] 80 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [8] 106 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [9] 92 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [10] 1
The Walloon Region or Wallonia (French: Région Wallonne or Wallonie) occupies the southern part of Belgium. It has a surface area of 16,901 km 2 (6,526 sq mi), or 55.1% of Belgium, and is also divided into 5 provinces which contain a total of 262 municipalities.