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This is the area that makes up Romance Flanders, around the metropolis of Lille and Douai, and northeast Artois around Béthune and Lens. Picard is also named Rouchi around Valenciennes, Roubaignot around Roubaix, or simply patois in general French.
Walloon Flanders, where the Picard language, closely related to French, was spoken. Artois (in the Pas-de-Calais department): removed from Flanders in 1191 and created as independent county in 1237 Netherlands:
This is the area that makes up Romance Flanders, around the metropolis of Lille and Douai, and northeast Artois around Béthune and Lens. Picard is also named Rouchi around Valenciennes, Roubaignot around Roubaix, or simply patois in general French.
Native names: picard [pikaʁ], ch’ti; Language family: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Western, Gallo-Romance, Oïl; Number of speakers: c. 700,000; Spoken in: northeast France, southern Belgium; First written: c. 1000 AD; Writing system: Latin script; Status: offically recognized by the French Community of Belgium as a indigenous regional ...
Feb 13, 2024 · The Brussels-Capital Region is bilingual, with both French and Dutch as an official language. The official language is Flanders is Dutch or Flemish. The official language in most of Wallonia is French. There is a German speaking minority in the east of Wallonia.
Picard ( / ˈpɪkɑːrd /, also US: / pɪˈkɑːrd, ˈpɪkərd /, French: [ pikaʁ] ⓘ) is a langue d'oïl of the Romance language family spoken in the northernmost of France and parts of Hainaut province in Belgium. Administratively, this area is divided between the French Hauts-de-France region and the Belgian Wallonia along the border ...
Jan 28, 2023 · Hendrik Conscience’s tome “The Lion of Flanders”, written in 1838 and translated into many languages, was a godsend for young Belgians eager to put clear blue water between themselves and the French.
