2007-04-09 12:55:54 · 8 answers · asked by ultimate_money 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Belgium
Official Languages: French, Dutch and German. Wallon, the local variant of French, is used by 33% of population. Flemish, the local variant of Dutch, is used by more than 60% of the population, and is spoken in the northern part of the country. The languages learned at school are officially labelled French and Dutch. German, spoken by 1% of population can be found in the cantons in the east of the Wallon region. Brussels, the capital of Belgium, has two official languages: French and Dutch.
Luxembourgish is spoken by around 0.5% of the population, but the language has no official status. About 10% of the Belgian population are non-native, and languages spoken include Italian, Spanish, Greek, Arabic and Turkish.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/european_languages/countries/belgium.shtml
2007-04-09 13:06:02 · answer #1 · answered by Martha P 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Belgium is linguistically divided. It has two main languages: 59% of its population, being 6.18 million people in the north, mainly in the region Flanders, speak Dutch (while Belgians of both major languages often refer to it as Flemish); French is spoken by 40%: 3.29 million in the southern region Wallonia and an estimated 0.88 million in the officially bilingual Brussels-Capital Region or 85-90% of its residents – thus a minority there speaks Dutch, its local language till the first half of the 20th century. Less than 1% of the Belgians, around 70,000 live in the German-speaking Community in the east of the Walloon Region. This linguistic diversity often leads to political and cultural conflict and is reflected in Belgium's complex system of government and political history.
2007-04-09 19:58:23 · answer #2 · answered by Kalikina 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Official languages are the three official languages.
Dutch
French
German
Other languages spoken in Belgium include:
Walloon
Picard
Champenois
Lorrain
Yiddish
2007-04-09 20:10:46 · answer #3 · answered by teacupn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The company I work for is based in Belgium. I think the language is Flemish.
2007-04-09 20:04:39 · answer #4 · answered by breeze1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Belgium speak French, Deutch, German and English. If you go to Belgium people mostly speak French and Deutch. People hardly speak English Or German there.
2014-09-28 06:39:31 · answer #5 · answered by GameXpert 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything you need to know about Belgium
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/be.html
2007-04-09 20:09:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flemish whic is a dutch dialect.
2007-04-09 20:01:21 · answer #7 · answered by Imogen Sue 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
french and dutch
2007-04-09 20:00:30 · answer #8 · answered by LuissM 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋