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Publication details [#37241]

Bostock, William W. 1988. The 'practical Dutch', and a 'people on the move': The Flemish and their joint language policy. Journal of Intercultural Studies 10 (2) : 1–15.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical explanation | language attitude | language policy | language spread | language use

Language as a subject

Dutch | Flemish | French

ISBN

0725-6868

Journal WWW

tandf.catchword.com/titles/07256868.htm

Annotation

This article deals with the development of the Dutch language from German dialects, compares Dutch to Flemish, Afrikaans and Frisian,comments on Dutch outside Belgium and the Netherlands, and discusses the Dutch language policy as embodied in the Dutch Language Treaty of 1980 and its practicality.