Flemish language
Flemish language member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). Generally regarded as the Belgian variant of Dutch (see Dutch language ) rather than as a separate tongue, Flemish is spoken by approximately 5.5 million people in Belgium, where it is one of the official languages, and by a few thousand persons in France. So closely are Flemish and Dutch related that the difference between them has been compared to the difference between American and British English; however, some scholars hold that they have diverged sufficiently since the 16th cent. to be described as separate languages.
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. . . while US blacks get a separate tongue of their own
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/22/1996; ; 553 words
; The Queen and her former colonial subjects in American inner cities might have trouble understanding one other, but until now it has been taken for granted that they are speaking the same tongue. The decision by the California city of Oakland to recognise black English as a second language in its
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Prior evidence of putative novel rhinovirus species, Australia.(LETTERS)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...identity) of the first characterized HRV-A2 strain, HRV-QPM (4,5). More recently, we proposed that the HRV-A2 strains diverged sufficiently to meet several of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses criteria for classifying a putative new species...
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Conserved noncoding sequences among cultivated cereal genomes identify candidate regulatory sequence elements and patterns of promoter evolution(W)
Magazine article from: Plant Cell; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...footprinting is enhanced significantly when genomic sequences are available from a number of related species that have diverged sufficiently so that conserved functional elements can be distinguished from nonconserved sequences (Dubchak et al., 2000; Cliften...
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Europe's identity crisis revisited. (Europe Through A Glass Darkly: Daedalus Spring 1994 issue that explores changes in European politics and economics since 1964; includes bibliography)
Magazine article from: Daedalus; 3/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...criteria set at Maastricht to prepare for monetary union are promises for the future; until now, state policies have diverged sufficiently to produce a broad spectrum of deficits, inflation rates, and interest rates. It is also true that matters have been...
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G-Boxes, Bigfoot Genes, and Environmental Response: Characterization of Intragenomic Conserved Noncoding Sequences in Arabidopsis(W)
Magazine article from: Plant Cell; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...diverged to approximately the same extent as have maize-rice and manmouse (Kaplinsky et al., 2002); all of these have diverged sufficiently such that sequence conservations are not due to neutral carryover. Table 1 defines important terms we use: CNS, oCNS...
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Grace under pressure
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 12/30/2006; ; 509 words
; ...politicians, honest, corrupt, or a bit of both. Business is transacted in four languages at once, five if lying counts as a separate tongue. The characters might have wandered in from films, Hollywood noirs shot by German expressionists, French gangster flicks...
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Fall into a winter's hike.(Brief article)
Newspaper article from: Running & FitNews; 9/1/2008; 589 words
; ...ample room. Remember you'll be doing a substantial amount of walking downhill. For this reason, sports stores often sell separate tongue pads that you can insert to keep your foot from sliding forward in the shoe. The shoes should be snug, but comfortable...
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Trail blazing.(Nature's Way)(hiking)
Newspaper article from: Running & FitNews; 9/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...ample room. Remember you'll be doing a substantial amount of walking downhill. For this reason, sports stores often sell separate tongue pads that you can insert to keep your foot from sliding forward in the shoe. The shoes should be snug, but comfortable...
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Text of Weekly Column by American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 1/6/1997; 700+ words
; ...a hopeful sign. Ten, 15 years ago, few would have dared to challenge people who said that African-American English is a separate tongue. Now, these people have to defend themselves against black parents. There is another interesting and hopeful feature of...
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Dutch and Flemish literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...works written in the standard language of the Low Countries since...Dutch when referring to the language spoken by the people of the modern Netherlands, and Flemish when referring to that spoken...Belgians who use the same language. This is inaccurate and many...would argue that Dutch and ...
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Flemish
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Flemish One of two official languages of Belgium (the other being French). It is spoken, mainly in the n half of the country, by c. 50% of the population. It is virtually the same language as Dutch .
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Flemish
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
Flem·ish / ˈflemi sh / • adj. of or relating to Flanders, its people, or their language. • n. 1. the Dutch language as spoken in Flanders, one of the two official languages of Belgium. 2. ( the Flemish ) [as pl. n. ] the people of Flanders.
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Dutch language
Book article from: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
...France; it is also an official language in Suriname and the Netherlands...calling the main Germanic language of The Netherlands 'Dutch' and that of Belgium 'Flemish,' the two are regarded as the same language, called Nederlands in both...Holland and South Holland. 'Flemish' (or Dutch in ...
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Dutch language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). Also called Netherlandish, it is spoken by about...inhabitants of the Netherlands, where it is the national language, and by about 300,000 people in the Western Hemisphere...this divergence is that written Dutch ...
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