French Flemish
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French Flemish is a West Flemish dialect spoken in the north of contemporary France.
Historic regression of Dutch in the Western periphery. The blue line indicates the situation in the 7th–8th century; the red line marks the situation during the 20th century; the black line is the current French-Belgian border.
Bilingual sign at the entrance to the village of Renescure (between Saint-Omer and Hazebrouck)
French Flanders
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French Flanders is a historical and cultural region of France. It was historically part of the historical County of Flanders, now Flanders in Belgium where Flemish—a Low Franconian dialect cluster of
French Flemish
…was spoken as early as the 8th century in the region of Flanders that was ceded to France at the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees. This area became known as French Flanders. Its dialect subgroup, called French Flemish, meanwhile, became a minority dialect that survives mainly in Dunkirk (Duinkerke in Dutch, Duunkerke in…
Territorial changes due to the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659), including French Flanders