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Map indicating the language areas and provinces of Belgium. Provinces are marked by the thinner black lines.
  Dutch-speaking
 
  French-speaking
  German-speaking
 
  Bilingual FR/NL
Community:   Region:
Flemish   Flanders
French and Flemish   Brussels
French   Wallonia
German-speaking   Wallonia

This article outlines the legislative chronology concerning the use of official languages in Belgium.

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Language legislation in Belgium

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use of official languages in Belgium. A factor in the Belgian Revolution of the 1830s was the rising dominance of the Dutch language in the southern provinces...

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Languages of Belgium

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extensive language legislation concerning Dutch, French and German, even though the Belgian Constitution does not explicitly mention which languages enjoy...

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Language policy

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Languages Belgium: Language legislation in Belgium Croatia: Croatian linguistic purism Finland: Finland's language strife France: Language policy in France...

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Municipalities with language facilities

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In Belgium, there are 27 municipalities with language facilities (Dutch: faciliteitengemeenten; French: communes à facilités; German: Fazilitäten-Gemeinden)...

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Provinces of Belgium

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Dutch and the French language. He is responsible for ensuring that the language legislation is observed in the municipalities in the Brussels Periphery...

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Belgium

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Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the...

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Multilingualism

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Languages English-only movement Language legislation in Belgium Languages of the European Union Multilingual education In Africa See the critical period hypothesis...

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Flemish Community

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boundaries of the Dutch-language area and of the bilingual area of Brussels-Capital. Unlike in the French Community of Belgium, the competences of the...

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Belgian Federal Parliament

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The Federal Parliament is the bicameral parliament of Belgium. It consists of the Chamber of Representatives (Dutch: Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers...

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Suicide legislation

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their own lives. Such legislation requires manufacturers of weapons to refuse sales to those deemed at potential risk of suicide. In some jurisdictions,...

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Prostitution in Belgium

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Prostitution in Belgium is legal and was decriminalized on 1 June 2022. Human trafficking or exploiting individuals involved in prostitution is punishable...

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Law of Belgium

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Belgium government. The language differences in Belgium have caused governmental and constitutional problems. Official languages are French, Dutch and German...

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History of Belgium

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soldiers in the Belgian army to campaign for greater use of Dutch language in education and government, though not separatist. The Germans left Belgium stripped...

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Language and the euro

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respective language. For European Union legislation, the spelling of the words for the currency is prescribed for each language; in the English-language version...

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Municipalities of Belgium

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Belgium comprises 581 municipalities (Dutch: gemeenten; French: communes; German: Gemeinden), 300 of them grouped into five provinces in Flanders and 262...

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Belgian chocolate

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to prolonged negotiation but the legislation finally enacted, in 2003, was viewed as excessively lenient in Belgium. In 2007, a voluntary quality standard...

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Beer in Belgium

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commercially available. In 1885, a change in legislation made brewing of German-style bottom-fermenting beers viable in Belgium, and it was only from then...

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List of countries and territories where English is an official language

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official language are former territories of the British Empire. Exceptions include Rwanda and Burundi, which were formerly German and then Belgian colonies;...

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Dutch language

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language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (or 60% of the population of Belgium). In South America, it is the native language...

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Special law

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a type of legislation. A special law, or qualified majority law, is a type of legislation in Belgium which requires a qualified majority in both chambers...

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List of official languages by country and territory

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refer to the national language as the Malaysian language (Bahasa Malaysia), although legislation still refers to the Malay language (Bahasa Melayu). As...

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German language in the Basic Law

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guarantees the freedom to use any of the country's languages in Article 30. See also language legislation in Belgium. South Tyrol, a province of Italy, guarantees...

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Belgium in World War II

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After 18 days of fighting in which Belgian forces were pushed back into a small pocket in the north-west of the country, the Belgian military surrendered to...

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Official language

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An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations. These rights can be created in written form or by historic...

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