FRENCH FLEMISH

'French Flemish' (in English occasionally known by its Dutch name 'Frans-Vlaams') is a dialect of the Dutch language. It is spoken in the north of contemporary France and is considered part of the West Flemish dialect group. Placenames testify of the dialect being spoken since the 8th century in the area that was ceded to France in the 17th century and became known as French Flanders. Its dialect subgroup called French Flemish meanwhile became a minority dialect that survives mainly between Dunkirk (''Duinkerke'' in Dutch), Bourbourg, Calais (''Kales'' in Dutch), Saint-Omer and Bailleul (''Belle'' in Dutch). It has about 20,000 daily users, and twice that number of occasional speakers.

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★ Akademie voor Nuuze Vlaamsche Tale tries to regulate this language

★ Flemish in France] site UOC, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya] (Open University of Catalonia), subsite Euromosaic - Research Centre of Multilingualism.

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