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Languages of Belgium

The Linguasphere Register records 7 entries for Belgium, spread across 1 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.

7Register entries
1Sectors present
2Zones
2Language entries

5= INDO-EUROPEAN

Register entries recorded in Belgium

CodeEntryLevelNote
51=ROMANICZoneCovers the "Romance" or Italiano + Româneasca set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.
52-ANORSK + FRYSKSetGERMANIC,.
52-ACFRYSK + DEUTSCHChainCONTINENTAL-WEST-GERMANIC, "frisian" + "teutonic". for note on the term "teutonic" see [52] Deutsch + Nederlands below. …
52-ACBDEUTSCH + NEDERLANDSNetGERMAN + DUTCH, deutsch + "dutch", ’teutonic’. The modern spoken and recorded idioms of this net are classified below …
52-ACB-daripwarischInnerripuarian, ripuarisch, ripuarisch-fränkisch, mittel-fränkisch, kölsch, in [51] Français: francique central, francique …
52-ACB-dbletzebürgeschInnerluxembourgeois, lëtzeburgesch, luxemburgisch, luxembourgish, "luxemburgish", luxemburg-mosel-fränkisch, in [51] …
52=GERMANICZoneCovers the "Germanic" or Norsk + Frysk set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.

Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.