Speaking PROVINCES Number of French- Flemish- French and inhabitants speaking speaking Flemish Antwerp 968,677 12,289 762,414 113,606 Brabant 1,469,677 382,947 603,507 381,997 E. Flanders 1,120,335 9,311 934,143 116,889 W. Flanders 874,135 31,825 669,081 123,938 Hainaut 1,232,867 1,113,738 17,283 49,575 Liége 888,341 748,504 14,726 50,068 Limbourg 275,691 9,123 218,622 29,386 Luxemburg 231,215 183,218 153 1,393 Namur 362,846 342,379 733 4,436 --------- --------- -------- ------- Totals 7,423,784 2,833,334 3,220,662 871,288 This table shows French predominance for the entire country. The arrangement given immediately below brings out this fact more clearly. Inhabitants speaking French only 2,833,334 “ “ French and Flemish 871,288 “ “ French and German 74,993 “ “ French, German and Flemish 52,547 “ “ German only 31,415 “ “ German and Flemish 8,652 “ “ Flemish only 3,220,662 “ “ None[23] of the three languages 330,893 --------- 7,423,784 FOOTNOTES: [7] The importance of the treaty of Verdun of this date with regard to the conflict between the French and the German languages is pointed out in the next chapter. [8] G. Kurth: La frontière linguistique en Belgique et dans le nord de la France, _Mém. couronnés, Acad. R. Sci. Let. et Beaux-Arts de Belg._, XLVIII, Vol. 1, 1895, Vol. 2, 1898, Brussels. [9] Cf. Map, “Ausbreitung der Romanischen Sprachen in Europa,” 1:8,000,000, in Gröber: Grundriss der Romanischen Philologie, Trübner, Strassburg, 1904-1906. [10] The Belgae of Caesar are probably represented by the Teutonic populations of northern France--Flanders and Batavia--rather than by the Walloon. They are a Germanic tribe who made their appearance in Belgium about the third century, B.C. [11] G. Touchard: Les langues parlées en Belgique, _Le Mouv. Géogr._, May 11, 1913, pp. 226-229. [12] N. Warker: Die deutsche Orts- und Gewässernamen der Belgischen Provinz Luxemburg, _Deutsche Erde_, Vol. 8, 1909, pp. 99, 139. [13] Statistique de la Belgique, Recensement Général de 1910, Vol. 2, 1912, Vol. 3, 1913, Brussels. [14] G. Kurth: op. cit. Kurth’s work is based partly on place names. See also L. De Backer: La langue flamande en France, Samyn, Ghent, 1893.