LL-L "Language use" 2005.05.04 (05) [B/E]

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From: Þjóðríkr Þjóðreksson <didimasure at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Administrativia" 2005.05.03 (13) [E/Portuguese]


>From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
>Subject: LL-L "Administrativia" 2005.05.03 (09) [E]
>
>So, if we take the number of inhabitants into account, Dutch
>speakers from
>the Netherlands (16 million) and Belgium (10 million, of whom 7
>million (?)
>speak Flemish = Dutch) relatively would form the majority.

'k Docht 'k ik da, van de 10 m'ljoen Belge, da d'r 6 m'ljoen Vloaminge zèn,
1 m'ljoen Brusselèrs en 3 m'ljoen Woale. Mor de mieërder-èd (meerderheid)
van dee 1 m'ljoen Brusselèrs sprekt Frans.
(Just gelak in e dieël van de Vlomse raand rond Brussel, in de provinse
"Vlaams-Brabant".)
Maain schatting zaa dus zèn, 6 m'ljoen Neiderlaanssprekenden in den
Belgique.
Ni dagget veul verschil øtmokt...

I thought that, of the 10 million Belgians, there lived 6 million in
Flanders, 1 million people in Brussels, and 3 million in Wallony.
But the majority of the "Bruxellois" speaks French (like quite some
immigrants in the province Vlaams-Brabant as well; this leads to a lot of
trouble. It are often rich people who work in Brussels)
My judgement is that we have about 6 million people speaking Dutch in
Belgium.
Not that this matters a lot, though.

D. Masure
[Diederik]

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