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In the Low Countries, Do People Speak Dutch, Flemish, or Hollandic?
25 February 2021
People in the Netherlands and Flanders speak one language: Dutch. But some speakers call it Flemish or Hollandic. In the past, the varieties were known as Southern and Northern Dutch. What is really going on? Linguist Fieke Van der Gucht attempts to disentangle the issue.
A Standard Language Is a Dialect With an Army
28 January 2020
Similar to most Flemish people, I find myself in between three types of language: my dialect (“mother tongue”), the tussentaal (“in-between language”) and the culture language (or “standard language”). My daughter will, for example, tell me I sound quite artificial when she listens to me