Is the Flemish language close to Dutch? If yes, why did the Flemish join with the French-speaking Walloons in a country (Belgium) instead of the Dutch? - Quora
Is Dutch understood at all in Lille or Luxembourg City, or does the language in Europe have a defined geographical spread to it, that one could not start using it in Aachen
![TIL that in a strict linguistic sense, only people from West- and East-Flanders speak "Flemish" : r/belgium TIL that in a strict linguistic sense, only people from West- and East-Flanders speak "Flemish" : r/belgium](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Nederfrankisch.png)