In the Netherlands language is not a bone of contention as in many other countries. But what languages are spoken are worth protecting. The Volkskrant interviewed former VVD politician Marieke Sanders ...

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 ...

I live in Flanders too and, as already mentioned, Flemish is in Flanders itself never spoken of as if it were a language. However, one should be cautious: it IS a fact that the real Dutch is spoken in ...

Around a quarter of everyone over the age of 15 in the Netherlands speaks a language other than Dutch at home, according to new data from national statistics agency CBS. The research, based on ...