From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 24 17:53:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 333E937B400 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 17:53:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4295081478; Sat, 25 May 2002 10:23:14 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 10:23:14 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Brad Knowles Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Terry Lambert , Annelise Anderson , Jamie Bowden , Alexey Dokuchaev , chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Belgian languages (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020525102314.J9046@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3CEAE187.FC1CC966@mindspring.com> <20020522050350.GA266@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523124604.Z45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020523061551.GA237@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 23 May 2002 at 13:05:10 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 8:15 AM +0200 2002/05/23, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > >> Bruxelles in French, Brussel in Flemish. French is the primary >> language there. > > Officially, Brussels is dual-language (although Belgium has three > official languages, the third being German to cover the far > eastern-most portion of the country for about 5% of the total > population of Belgium), and language dominance varies by commune. > Moreover, there is also a language native to Brussels that is neither > French nor Flemish, and is spoken mainly by the residents of the > oldest part of town, in the Marolles. I haven't heard of this one. What's it related to? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message