Orientation sites, Languages, Cultures

Getting to know Belgium: This describes the languages: ://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/belgium-country-profile.html

• Dutch, and local variant known as Flemish, is spoken in the north; some 60%
• German in some eastern areas, 
• French in the south. //europa.eu/youth/travelling_europe/index_be_en. 
• Walloon - a variant of  French, spoken by Celtic originating people, Protestants, see ://www.answers.com/topic/walloons
• Luxembourgish - some 1%

Walloons were exiled because of their beliefs in the 17th Century, and settled at New Netherlands - now New York, Manhattan, and other places.  See http://www.answers.com/topic/walloons