NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Flemish language

the official language of Flanders, which is Dutch with only very small variations;
any of the regional dialects of Dutch spoken in Belgium; these are more different from Dutch than the official language of Flanders;
one of these dialects, the West Flemish.

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	Flemish language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages).
	Generally regarded as the Belgian variant of Dutch (see Dutch language) rather than as a separate tongue, Flemish is spoken by approximately 5.5 million people in Belgium, where it is one of the official languages, and by a few thousand persons in France.
	So closely are Flemish and Dutch related that the difference between them has been compared to the difference between American and British English; however, some scholars hold that they have diverged sufficiently since the 16th cent.

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