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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
In 2008, Verstraete wrote that there were four languages associated with the Lamalama people: Umpithamu, Morrobolam, Mba Rumbathama (Mbarrumbathama, Lamalama) and Rimanggudinhma language (Mbariman-Gudhinma). [1] In 2020, he spoke of five languages associated with the Lamalama people, but the name of the fifth is not recorded in the article. [2]
Many Flemings stayed in England after the Conquest and influenced the English language. The main part of refugees to England, Wales and Scotland from the 11th till the 17th century were from the Low Countries; particularly Flemish skilled weavers and textile workers immigrated as a result of floods, overpopulation and warfare in Flanders.
Compared to the other dialects and sublanguages of Dutch, Brabantian has historically had a major influence on the development of Dutch. During the Middle Ages, manuscripts from the 10th to 15th centuries show that Limburgish and then West Flemish were the predominant literary languages, but there is no evidence of literary manuscripts farther north.
Middle Dutch is a collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects whose ancestor was Old Dutch.It was spoken and written between 1150 and 1500. Until the advent of Modern Dutch after 1500 or c. 1550, [2] there was no overarching standard language, but all dialects were mutually intelligible.
Van Dale Great Dictionary of the Dutch Language (Dutch: Van Dale Groot woordenboek van de Nederlandse taal, pronounced [vɑn ˈdaːlə ˌɣroːt ˈʋoːrdə(m)ˌbuk fɑn də ˈneːdərlɑntsə ˈtaːl]), called Dikke Van Dale ([ˈdɪkə vɑn ˈdaːlə], lit. ' Thick Van Dale ') for short, [2] is the leading dictionary of the Dutch language. The ...
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