Belgium French, Flemish and Dutch (As in Holland/The Netherlands). Just out of interest, the Dutch is not the exact same language as Flemish. Flemish and French, there are often language struggles between Flemish and French speaking people, that is sad.
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Flemish (which is basically Dutch, a Germanic language) and French. Booyah! Flemish which is a little like Dutch, French, and German. Depends where you are northen aka Flanders is Flemish ( Dutch with a german twang) Brusseles is French and Wallon is German.
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Almost 60 per cent of the Belgian population speak Dutch as their first language, 40 per cent are francophones and there is a small German speaking region (with less than 2 per cent of the population) in the eastern part of the country along the German border.
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Was wondering what is the most common language spoken. I was originally told that Belgians speak French, so we bought a couple of handy phrasebooks for Dutch and French. Then I found out that Belgians speak Flemish which I guess is very similar to Dutch. Wasn't quite sure if the French book is even necessary then.
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Hi Mike, Flemish is the same language as Dutch: the accent is different (and the accents of Flemish dialects are also very different from each other). Nevertheless you'll see that today the majority in Brussels speaks French: approximately 85 % versus 15 % Dutch-speaking.
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The French spoken in Belgium is standard but with its own distinctive accent (at least according to the French!) and a few specialised words, notably the use of septante and nonante for 70 and 90 instead of soixante-dix and quatre-vingt-dix.
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Sep 07, 2008, 12:07 PM. I like to make an effort when I'm abroad to speak the language. I don't like to be one of those tourists who just expects everyone to speak in English! I am English but can speak basic German, Spanish and French. I know in Bruges they speak Flemish, dutch or French.
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Belgium has three official languages: French, Dutch and German. Dutch in Belgium is virtually identical to Dutch in the Netherlands, with the exception of a few local terms and expressions, although certain areas in Dutch-speaking Belgium have local dialects that can sometimes be incomprehensible to speakers of standard Dutch.
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Sep 07, 2008, 12:31 PM. They do not speak French in Brugge, except to tourists. The local language is Dutch (Flemish if you prefer, but it's the same thing). After that they would prefer to speak English to foreigners.
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some different words), French and German. But most of us speak fluent English and because there are a lot of foreigners living in Belgium (because the headquarters of the European community is in Brussels) a lot of other languages are spoken...Turkish (or is it Islamic), Spanish, Polish, Russian,...
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what language do they speak in belgium
French, Dutch, and German are the language spoken in Belgium.   In Belgium, they speak French, Dutch and German language.