Dialects of Dutch: West Flemish, East Flemish, Brabantian
Dialects of German: Moselle Franconian, Ripuarian
Foreign
English (2nd: 40%),[1] Spanish (2nd: 5%), Italian (1st: 2%, 2nd: 4%), Arabic (1st: 3%, 2nd: 1%), Turkish (1st: 2%)
Signed
Flemish Sign Language (VGT), French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB), German Sign Language (DGS)
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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.
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