Het 'Vlaams', een taal of een misverstand?

My contribution “'Flemish', a language or a misunderstanding” describes the language development in Dutch-speaking Belgium and dwells on the reasons why Flemish is often considered an autonomous language, next to Dutch. The international misunderstanding about the position of Flemish is due to historical French language ideology and the language nationalism of both Dutchmen and Flemings. Dutch should be considered a pluricentric language with two natiolects: Netherlandic Dutch and Belgian Dutch (and Surinam Dutch as a third one).