Flemish Brabant

Flem Antwerp dialect

He speaks in a dialect.

I should know the dialect

We're designing for this machine dialect.

A Turin dialect instead of Neapolitan, that's all.

You come from Tokyo but already speak the dialect

Oh, we don't need him. I happen to know this dialect.

But we find 40 different names of clouds in this dialect used here.

There's a poem by Jack Gilbert called The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart.

(e) Percentage of population (excluding mutes) aged five and over by usual language dialect

Belgium the Flemish Vlaams Blok won 12.3 per cent of the votes and has 11 representatives in the Federal Parliament, 15 in the Flemish Parliament, five in the Senate and two in the Brussels regional parliament

One reason why Flemish Belgians resent having to prop up the Walloons with their tax money is that they regard them almost as foreigners. Most Flemish readers don t read French language newspapers or novels, and vice versa.

Meetings also took place with various authorities of the French speaking and Flemish regions and communities.

The optional dialect parameter was added in PHP 4.0.0 and is functional only with InterBase 6 and up.

Alas for them, however, the Flemish have no such desire. Belgium, after all, became an independent state in 1830, precisely in order to liberate the Catholic Flemish, as well as the Walloons, from being second class subjects in a Protestant Dutch monarchy.

2. The Pitcairners have their own dialect, a mixture of eighteenth century English and Polynesian they also speak English.

Now, the painters of this erotic school of Flemish painting used the figure not as form, but as figure.

In one case, a senior Serb officer complained of his fellow officers insistence that he always speak in the Croatian dialect.

Don t we feel sympathy for the Tibetans in their struggle for freedom? Why shouldn t the Flemish go their own way?

Strong concern was also expressed at the existence in the Flemish Community of a political party with an extremist and xenophobic ideology.

Vlaams Belang, the Flemish nationalist party, may not be the biggest party in Belgium, but it has done well in local elections. Like the Swiss People s Party, Vlaams Belang feeds on popular resentment of immigrants especially Muslim immigrants of the European Union, and, of course, of the French speaking Walloons, from whom the Flemish nationalists would like a divorce.

If Flemish citizens don t want their taxes to go to the Walloons, what about helping out unemployed immigrants from Africa, a large chunk of which the Belgians once owned and exploited as a major source of their prosperity? It should come as no surprise that the Flemish nationalist party (Vlaams Belang) is hostile to immigrants too.

Perhaps the citizens of Belgium do not have enough in common anymore, and Flemish and Walloons would be better off being divorced. But one hopes not.

Chen Feifei came to the fort to recall the history. She is the first broadcaster of the Southern Fujian Dialect at the Fujian Frontline Broadcasting Station at that time.

It is, perhaps, also worth noting that almost half of the Game Reserve's former population were non Basarwa in their ethnic identity, being mostly speakers of a Tswana dialect.

Belgium stated that the French , Flemish and German speaking communities and the regions of Wallonia, Flanders and Brussels Capital were also bound by its signature of the Convention.

Belgium declared that the French , Flemish and German speaking communities and the regions of Wallonia, Flanders and Brussels Capital were also bound by its signature of the Migrants Protocol.

In rural areas parts of the Danish minority speak Plattdeutsch, a Low German regional language in the immediate border region they also speak sønderjysk, a South Jutlandish dialect, with their German neighbours.

Belgium declared that the French , Flemish and German speaking communities and the regions of Wallonia, Flanders and Brussels Capital were also bound by its signature of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol.

In Spain, some Catalonians have episodically demanded independence, as have some Flemish in Belgium and some Québécois in Canada. Iraq periodically verges on splitting into Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish states (the Kurds already have considerable autonomy).

In Fujian Province, a light cavalry team of propaganda was organized and established, going down to countryside fields and seaside fishing villages to propagate the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress in both local dialect and mandarin,

In the Flemish speaking community an awareness campaign on sex tourism and child prostitution has been started by the Kind en Gezin (Child and Family) organization, the main objective being to expose and denounce existing networks of child prostitution, without sensationalism.

The programme is in operation in 14 states and focuses on indigenous youths and adults in rural areas it contains specific language and dialect material, both for mother tongue literacy and for learning Spanish as a second language (material in 53 languages and dialects).

For more than six months, the country has been unable to form a government that is able to unite the French speaking Walloons (32 ) and Dutch speaking Flemish (58 ). The Belgian monarch, Albert II, is desperately trying to stop his subjects from breaking up the state.

A now common extremist claim is that education is acculturating African and Asian children to Western ways of thinking (Boko Haram in the local Hausa dialect means Western education is a sin ). Moreover, extremists like Boko Haram and Al Shabab calculate that they can attack schools with impunity.

In addition, in Belgium, the Flemish Government has formalized an extensive consultation and discussion process with representatives of civil society (employers and environmental associations, trade unions, etc.) about climate change, in a very significant bottom up approach that was the subject of a special presentation at the Eleventh Session of the Conference of Parties to the Climate Change Convention.

This official effort to portray native Taiwanese as a separate ethnic group, with scant relation to Chinese culture, was extended to language, as Chen favored using the Fujian dialect in lieu of the Mandarin spoken by 1.3 billion Chinese and taught all over the world. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education sought to expunge all references to China in school textbooks.

In the run up to the referendum, Scotland s independence movement became an important point of reference for Catalans and Basques in Spain, the Flemish in Belgium, the Veneto and South Tyrol regions in Italy, Corsicans and Bretons in France, and the secessionists of Quebec. All hoped that Scotland would pave the way for the peaceful breakup of their own states.

Zaia s vivid imagination does not stop there he has now proposed that popular Italian TV series be dubbed or subtitled in the local dialect! And Berlusconi, consumed as he is with defending his difficult position as the main protagonist in a seemingly endless soap opera of sex scandals, is not capable of reining in such blatant provocations on the part of the Lega Nord.

It's getting as close as possible to the thought experiment of finding two families both of whom live in Brussels who are identical on every single one of these dimensions, but one of whom speaks Flemish and one of whom speaks French or two families that live in a rural district in Nigeria, one of whom speaks Hausa and one of whom speaks Igbo.

Although the French speaking Belgians started the European Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century, they are now living in a deprived rustbelt in need of federal subsidies, a substantial amount of which comes from taxes paid by the more prosperous, high tech Flemish. A handful of right wing Dutch dreamers care, too, for they have visions of uniting Belgian Flanders with the Dutch motherland.

In the 1968 Belgian Linguistic Case, the European Court of Human Rights found that Belgium had not violated the right to education contained in Art. 2 of the First Protocol to the ECHR when it denied French speaking parents living in a Flemish speaking part of Belgium the ability to have their children educated through the medium of French the court ruled that this right to education did not include a right to be taught in the language of parents' choice.