Soldats du néerlandais

Cross-border language areas are always multi-centred: in each country the common language is used in a somewhat different way. Flanders has the same insecurities, the same emotions, the same functional differences, but it is not a multicentric area like any other. Firstly, there are the Flemish claims to Dutch, due to the historical weight of the southern regions; secondly, the cultural differences due to the various revolutions; and thirdly, the linguistic nationalism of the Flemish. The Flemish nation was formed on a linguistic basis, not the Netherlands. These three oppositions give this li... Mehr ...