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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".
Walloon-speaking Belgians settled in the region during the 1850s, and still constitute a large part of the population. [ 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.
An estimated 141,580 people, or 0.0486%, [113] in the United States still speak the Dutch language, including its Flemish variant, at home as of 2013. This is in addition to the 23,010 and 510 speakers, respectively, of the Afrikaans and West-Frisian languages, both closely related to Dutch. [ 113 ]
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.
For example, English has about 450 million native speakers but, depending on the criterion chosen, can be said to have as many as two billion speakers. [4] There are also difficulties in obtaining reliable counts of speakers, which vary over time because of population change and language shift.
U.S. states by net international migration (From April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2024) National Rank State Total net international migration (2020-2024) [1] Net international migration rate per 1,000 inhabitants (2020-2024)
It is one of the three national and state languages of Belgium, together with French and German, and is the only official language of the Flemish Region. The various Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium contain a number of lexical and grammatical features that distinguish them from the standard Dutch.
In 2003 larger numbers of Hispanics in Texas reported that they spoke only English. [26] In August 2004, the community of El Cenizo, along the U.S.-Mexico border, made Spanish its official language. [27] Since 2007 Texas has provided yearly academic tests in both Spanish and English. [28]