The question whether Flemish is a language or a dialect is as interesting, and as futile, as asking if Mancunian, Texan or Appalachian are languages or dialects of English. In the Netherlands as well ...

“We want a Flemish university.” For a century that cry has been in the hearts of the Flemish, 3,000,000 of them, three-sevenths of the popution of Belgium. By recent vote of the Belgian Parliament, ...

THE moment the Belgian Parliament opened last November, the dangerous and complicated language question provoked a new ministerial overturn; and a crisis has been latent ever since. The November ...

Dutch is the official language in Belgium. French-speakers often pejoratively call the Dutch language used by Flemings Flemish but it is Dutch nevertheless. The Flemish tend to use it to refer to the ...

BRUSSELS — A university in Belgium has refused demands to “immediately” strip its website of Flemish sign-language videos displaying stereotypical and anti-Semitic symbols for Jews, saying it was ...

Flanders is developing its own automatic subtitling system, which will ensure accurate subtitles of Flemish dialects and colloquial language, but also make content accessible to non-Dutch-speakers. In ...

Flemish artists are calling for the introduction of a fixed quota for Dutch language repertoire with the public broadcaster VRT's radio stations. By Marc Maes Flemish artists are calling for the ...

SHORTLY before the war, the eminent Dutch essayist Menno ter Braak attended an international writers’ congress in Paris. Many distinguished writers had spoken before him, and the audience was very ...

The provincial authorities in Flemish Brabant hope to encourage residents with a mother-tongue other than Dutch to learn the ...

PARIS — FremantleMedia Belgium is set to co-produce the Flemish-language adaptation of “Wentworth,” the popular Australian prison drama, for Vier, a Flemish commercial network. Co-produced by ...

Children are being given detention for speaking French in the playground at a school in the Flemish-speaking part of Belgium. Pupils as young as seven are taken aside for an hour and given a ...