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Belgien
Official Languages: French, Dutch and German.
Wallon, the local variant of French, is used by 33% of population.
Flemish is used by more than 60% of the population, and is spoken in the northern part of the country. The languages learned at school are officially labelled French and Dutch.
German, spoken by 1% of population can be found in the cantons in the east of the Wallon region.
Brussels, the capital of Belgium, has two official languages: French and Dutch.
Luxembourgish is spoken by around 0.5% of the population, but the language has no official status.
About 10% of the Belgian population are non-native, and languages spoken include Italian, Spanish, Greek, Arabic and Turkish.
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