West Flemish
Sign in to saveAlso known as Western Flemish, West Flemish Language, West-Vlams, West-Vloams, vls, West-Vlaams
Germanic language spoken in West Flanders, French Flanders and in the west of Zeelandic Flanders
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Within Vinony's link graph, West Flemish is referenced by 632 other articles, and connects out to Gothic, Limburgish language and Proto-Germanic.
It sits within the topics Culture articles needing translation from Dutch Wikipedia, Culture of Zeeland and Dutch-language dialects.
Its subject is documented across 40 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Native to
- Belgium, Netherlands, France
- Region
- West Flanders , French Flanders , Zeelandic Flanders
- Native speakers
- (1.4 million cited 1998)
- Language family
- Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Weser–Rhine Germanic Low Franconian Dutch West Flemish
- Dialects
- Zeelandic French Flemish
- Iso 639 3
- Either:, vls – (West) Vlaams, zea – Zeelandic (Zeeuws)
- Glottolog
- sout3292 Southwestern Dutch, vlaa1240 Western Flemish
- Linguasphere
- 52-ACB-ag
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- natural language
- Subclass of
- Low Franconian
- Part of
- languages of the Netherlands
- Country
- France
- Said to be same as
- Zeelandic
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- short name
- VLS
- P10369
- Castelvenere
- female form of label
- la langue flamande occidentale
- Commons category
- West Flemish language
- writing system
- Latin script
- native label
- Vlaemsch
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 1400000
- topic's main category
- Category:West Flemish language
- Wikimedia language code
- vls
- indigenous to
- Flanders
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
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West Flemish (West-Vlams or West-Vloams or Vlaemsch (in French Flanders), Dutch: West-Vlaams, French: flamand occidental) is a collection of Low Franconian varieties spoken in western Belgium and the neighbouring areas of France and the Netherlands.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “West Flemish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.