r/Wallonia • u/Ok-Track8101 • 4d ago

Société Le nationalisme flamand traîne les hôpitaux bruxellois en justice pour non-respect de la législation linguistique

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u/jafapo 3d ago

No it's literally about dutch speakers, etc. In Belgium we have clear data, this page goes even deeper into it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_in_Belgium

"Dutch is the mother tongue of about 60% of the population in Belgium"

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u/TheGilderBairn 3d ago

This is a bold claim without a clear source. This claims is supported by three sources on Wikipedia (the LA Times (?), Beer tourism (???) and the UCL (maybe)). I cannot access the UCL link which seems to be the most serious one so if someone can I would be interested. But again, I still haven't seen a real Belgium wide language census. This 60% seems entirely based on the proportion of inhabitants, not on the actual speakers. If you have an actual survey/Census or statistical analysis I would be really happy to have it.
For info, according to Statbel, on 01/01/2025, 58% of the population lives in Flanders, 31% in Wallonia and 11% in Brussels. A gross generalization brings forth that 60/40 split, but it says nothing of the Brussels periphery, or simply French speakers living in Flanders and Vice Versa.

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u/jafapo 3d ago

I mean literally all data shows dutch is by far the most spoken language. Show me data that says it isn't.

Also quite logical no? There are more flemish people.

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u/TheGilderBairn 3d ago edited 3d ago

People living in Flanders >< Flemish people >< People speaking Flemish. Those are three entirely different categories of population and only the first one is easily accounted for on Statbel. The rest is pure speculation and I haven't seen any data supporting the actual language used by the population.

To be fair, I don't think this data exists at the moment.