West Flemish
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West Flemish (West-Vlams or West-Vloams or Vlaemsch (in French-Flanders), Template:Lang-nl, Template:Lang-fr) is a collection of dialects spoken in western Belgium and the neighbouring areas of France and Netherlands.
West Flemish is spoken by about a million people in the Belgian province of West Flanders, and a further 50,000 in the neighbouring Dutch coastal district of Zeelandic Flanders (200,000 if including the closely related dialects of Zeelandic) and 10-20,000 in the northern part of the French département of Nord. Some of the main cities where West Flemish is widely spoken are Bruges, Dunkirk, Kortrijk, Ostend, Roeselare, Ypres and Newport.
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