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German is the least prevalent official language in Belgium, spoken natively by less than 1% of the population. The German-speaking Community of Belgium numbers 77,000, residing in an area of Belgium that was ceded by the former German Empire as part of the Treaty of Versailles, which concluded World War I.
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. Its capital is Namur. The official languages are French and, only in the nine eastern municipalities that form the German-speaking Community near the German border, German.
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
In each region, Belgium's third official language, German, is notably less known than Dutch, French or English. [271] Wallonia recognises all of its vernacular dialect groups as regional languages, Flanders does not. [citation needed] France has a monolingual policy for the republic to conduct government business only in French.
Official language Switzerland: Europe 8,619,259 [7] Co-official language with German, French, and Romansh Croatia: Europe 208,055 Istria County Slovenia: Europe 93,089 Slovene Istria San Marino: Europe 33,607 [8] Official language Vatican City: Europe 825 [9] Co-official language with Latin: Total 69,153,468
Portuguese Speaking World - Countries and Territories where portuguese is spoken - Native Language in Dark Green. The Portuguese-speaking world, also known as the Lusophone World (Mundo Lusófono) or the Lusosphere, comprises the countries and territories in which the Portuguese language is an official, administrative, cultural, or secondary language.
The German-speaking Community of Belgium is one of the three constitutionally recognized federal communities of Belgium. [36] Covering an area of less than 1,000 km 2 within the province of Liège in Wallonia , it includes nine of the eleven municipalities of the so-called East Cantons and the local population numbers over 73,000 – less than ...
The Portuguese community in Belgium is fairly young, with only 10.3% of the Portuguese born population being over 65. Portuguese migrants in Belgium generally tend to settle for shorter periods of a few years, as opposed to permanent migrations prevalent during the 1960s great emigration movements from Portugal towards France. [51] [52]