Municipalities with language facilities information
Municipalities in Belgium with language facilities
The municipalities with language facilities in Belgium, shaded darker. All of the German area (in yellow) has language facilities. 1. Comines-Warneton 2. Mesen 3. Mouscron 4. Spiere-Helkijn 5. Ronse 6. Flobecq 7. Bever 8. Enghien 9. Drogenbos 10. Linkebeek 11. Sint-Genesius-Rode 12. Wemmel 13. Kraainem 14. Wezembeek-Oppem 15. Herstappe 16. Voeren 17. Malmedy 18. Waimes 19. Lontzen 20. Raeren 21. Eupen 22. Kelmis 23. Burg-Reuland 24. Sankt Vith 25. Amel 26. Bütgenbach 27. Büllingen[1]
In Belgium, there are 27 municipalities with language facilities (Dutch: faciliteitengemeenten; French: communes à facilités; German: Fazilitäten-Gemeinden), which must offer linguistic services to residents in Dutch, French, or German in addition to their single official languages. All other municipalities – with the exception of those in the bilingual Brussels region – are monolingual and only offer services in their official languages, either Dutch or French.[1]
Belgian law stipulates that:
12 municipalities in Flanders must offer services in French; of these 12, six (located around Brussels) are now believed to have become majority French-speaking.
Wallonia contains two language areas:
In the French-speaking part of Wallonia, four municipalities offer services in Dutch and another two offer services in German.
All municipalities in the German-speaking part of Wallonia (annexed after WWI) offer services in French in addition to German.
In Brussels, Dutch and French are co-official.
At the federal level, Dutch, French and German are all official languages.
^ ab"Belgium". protal.cor.europa.eu. Committee of the Regions. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
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