Official Languages

Official status is a legal designation. It requires a constitution, language act or charter, which this platform has not yet loaded — speaker numbers cannot establish it.

Languages spoken here

Bengali (secondary) · Bulgarian (secondary) · Chechen (secondary) · Dutch (secondary) · Dutch (Brabantian) (secondary) · French (secondary) · French (Quebec) (secondary) · German (secondary) · Gheg Albanian (secondary) · Italian (secondary) · Italian (Romanesco) (secondary) · Japanese (secondary) · Langue des signes de Belgique Francophone (secondary) · Levantine Arabic (secondary) · Lingala (secondary) · Luxembourgish (secondary) · Macedonian (secondary) · Modern Greek (secondary) · Modern Greek (biblical terms) (secondary) · Moroccan Arabic (secondary) · Nepali (secondary) · Northern Kurdish (secondary) · Polish (secondary) · Polish (Goralian) (secondary) · Portuguese (secondary) · Portuguese (Brazilian) (secondary) · Romanian (secondary) · Romanian (Moldovan) (secondary) · Russian (secondary) · Russian (Pre-1918) (secondary) · Slovak (secondary) · Slovak (Eastern) (secondary) · Spanish (secondary) · Tajik (secondary) · Turkish (secondary) · Urdu (secondary) · Urdu (Latin translit.) (secondary) · Walloon (secondary) · Western Armenian (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Belgium

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Flemish	5485000	West Flemish	Christianity
Walloon	3590000	Walloon	Christianity
Arab, Moroccan	346000	Arabic, Moroccan	Islam
Italian	283000	Italian	Christianity
French	221000	French	Christianity
Dutch	193000	Dutch	Non-Religious
Turk	164000	Turkish	Islam
Romanian	123000	Romanian	Christianity
Black African, general	122000	French	Islam
Polish	99000	Polish	Christianity
Spaniard	80000	Spanish	Christianity
Russian	63000	Russian	Christianity
Portuguese	56000	Portuguese	Christianity
Amazigh, Kabyle	56000	Kabyle	Islam
Algerian, Arabic-speaking	54000	Arabic, Algerian	Islam
German	52000	German, Standard	Christianity
European, general	50000	English	Christianity
Bulgarian	48000	Bulgarian	Christianity
Amazigh, Shawiya	42000	Tachawit	Islam
South Asian, general	33000	Urdu	Islam
Kurd, Kurmanji	30000	Kurdish, Northern	Islam
Greek	29000	Greek	Christianity
British	27000	English	Christianity
Afghan, general	26000	Dari	Islam
Congolese, general	25000	Lingala	Christianity
Chinese, general	23000	Chinese, Mandarin	Buddhism
Jewish, Hasidic	22000	Yiddish, Eastern	Judaism
Arab, Iraqi	21000	Arabic, Mesopotamian	Islam
Arab, Tunisian	21000	Arabic, Tunisian	Islam
Chechen	18000	Chechen	Islam
Romani, Vlax	16000	Romani, Vlax	Christianity
Arab, Syrian	15000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Brazilian, White	15000	Portuguese	Christianity
Americans, U.S.	14000	English	Christianity
Albanian	13000	Albanian, Gheg	Islam
Persian	13000	Persian, Iranian	Islam
Latin American, general	12000	Spanish	Christianity
Deaf	11000	French Belgian Sign Language	Unknown
Armenian	10000	Armenian, Western	Christianity
Pashtun, Southern	10000	Pashto, Southern	Islam
Urdu	9700	Urdu	Islam
Jewish, French	9000	French	Judaism
Fulbe Futa	8600	Pular	Islam
Punjabi, Western	8200	Punjabi, Western	Islam
Bengali	7300	Bengali	Islam
Macedonian	6400	Macedonian	Christianity
Serb	6300	Serbian	Christianity
Slovak	5800	Slovak	Christianity
Japanese	5600	Japanese	Buddhism
Tajik	5200	Tajik	Islam

Languages

48 languages recorded here.

Albanian, Gheg

Arabic, Algerian

Arabic, Levantine

Arabic, Mesopotamian

Arabic, Moroccan

Arabic, Tunisian

Armenian, Western

Bengali

Bulgarian

Chechen

Chinese, Mandarin

Dari

Dutch

English

French

French Belgian Sign Language

German, Standard

Greek

Hassaniyya

Italian

Japanese

Kabyle

Kurdish, Northern

Lingala

Luxembourgish

Macedonian

Nepali

Pashto, Southern

Persian, Iranian

Polish

Portuguese

Pular

Punjabi, Western

Romani, Vlax

Romanian

Russian

Serbian

Slovak

Spanish

Tachawit

Tajik

Tibetan, Central

Turkish

Turoyo

Urdu

Walloon

West Flemish

Yiddish, Eastern

All catalogue fields

150 fields recorded

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