Flemish speech development Ghent University
Flemish is a variant of Dutch. It is spoken in Flanders (i.e., the Northern part of Belgium) and in some southern areas in the Netherlands. There are different Flemish dialects, namely West and East Flemish, Brabantian, and Limburgish. Flemish is characterized by 23 consonants, consonant clusters, 13 vowels, and 3 diphthongs. There are several studies of children’s acquisition of Flemish that demonstrate that most consonants are correctly ...