Languages of Belgium

Languages of Belgium
Official
  Dutch (1st: ~59%, 2nd: ~16%, total: ~75%)
  French (1st: ~40%, 2nd: ~49%, total: ~89%)
  German (1st: ~1%, 2nd: ~22%, total: ~23%)
RegionalRomance languages: Walloon, Picard, Champenois, Lorrain

Germanic Languages: Limburgish, Luxembourgish

Dialects of Dutch: West Flemish, East Flemish, Brabantian

Dialects of German: Moselle Franconian, Ripuarian
ForeignEnglish (2nd: 40%),[1] Spanish (2nd: 5%), Italian (1st: 2%, 2nd: 4%), Arabic (1st: 3%, 2nd: 1%), Turkish (1st: 2%)
SignedFlemish Sign Language (VGT), French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB), German Sign Language (DGS)
Keyboard layout
Source[2]
Two bilingual signs (both in French and Dutch) on a street in Brussels

The Kingdom of Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French, and German.

A number of non-official, minority languages and dialects are spoken as well.

As a result of being in between Latin and Germanic Europe, and historically being split between different principalities, the nation has multiple official languages.

  1. ^ "SPECIAL EUROBAROMETER 386 Europeans and their Languages" (PDF). ec.europa.eu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 January 2016.
  2. ^ Europeans and their Languages Europa.eu