Skip to main content
Alexander Mikhailian

Alexander Mikhailian

Dutch is loosing to English as the second most used language in Brussels region

I came across some interesting stats while advertising on Facebook. People living in Brussels Capital +20km use the following three languages:

French   780 000
Dutch    240 000
English  240 000

Looks like Dutch is being phased out by English.

Tags: 
belgium
philosophy politics debian SEO flemish vandalism ddos science computational linguistics drupal oper.ru apple webdesign belgium tall ships race 2010 translation ruby cluster bsd linguistics journalism tcp flashmob version control piracy copyright proxy networking lexicology Word apache space exploration docker netbsd java essay gmail sysml tomcat jobs freedom photosight dictatorship php community management software hall of shame vocal minority linux bricolage metro data mining ESA microsoft drupalplanet russian struts OLAP xslt newspeak 6910p MySQL popularity statistics antwerp business idea belarus perl R silent majority patents encryption work kiss business sysadmin LaTeX wget udp gay idiots everywhere ukraine bash active record mac management EU refactoring project management singapore royal fuck-up standards cinema software programming curl programming google corporate legal evil conferences windows omg android mp3 ICT code snippets design patterns virtualization htc gnu screen configuration files regress misc hardware autoquotes papers ETL olpc BI rails design ipfilter economics git