• x00z@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The article is Dutch and people from the Netherlands can read it perfectly fine.

    Flemish is a dialect of Dutch. The official written language in Belgium is Dutch (but with a few tiny changes). Flemish is mostly only spoken. Or written in a more casual setting. In Belgian articles you’ll see Flemish when people are being quoted, or when a common dialect word is used (which gets italicized).

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      2 days ago

      It sounds like it’s similar to the two official written languages in Norway: bokmål and nynorsk!