:-s Flemish isn't a language. The Flemish are the people living in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, where 60% of Belgium's inhabitants live and they all speak Dutch. But of course we all have our dialects. The language changes slightly every +-10 miles, varying from uncomprehensible west-flemish (eh Vmser? :)) to Antwerpian, which is what I speak, to something that sounds more like German than Dutch. Flemish is roughly a group of dutch dialects I guess. It's easy enough to tell apart the dutch from the flemish by the way they speak. Hence Flemish being labelled as a language. It's just that my dialect has like the least similarities to what would be called 'brabants', which was originally THE reference for the use of Dutch in Flanders. But you cannot force a language upon someone... It's almost similar to 'Fries' in holland: It's no official language that gets taught in schools across the country, but it is actually spoken... In a fair few varieties. That's what happens if you put a small country between Dutch, french AND german speaking countries...