West Flemish is spoken by around 1. 05 million people in West Flanders ( in Belgium ), 90, 000 in the neighbouring Dutch coastal district of Zeelandic Flanders, and approximately 20, 000 in the northern part of the French département of Nord where it is classified, as a recognized dialect of Dutch, as one of the languages of France.

Some of the main cities where West Flemish is widely spoken include Bruges, Kortrijk, Ostend, Roeselare and Ypres.

The dialects of the rest of the Dutch province of Zeeland, Zeelandic, are sometimes also included in West Flemish although this classification is controversial.

The dialects of Zeelandic Flanders however do count as West and East Flemish variants.

West Flemish is listed as a " vulnerable " language in UNESCO's online Red Book of Endangered Languages.

Geographical location of West Flemish ( colour: sandy ) among the other minority and regional languages and dialects of the Benelux countries

Apartment building in Blankenberge ( Belgium ) with West Flemish name " Yzeren Rampe " ( Iron embankment )

* Euromosaic report on West Flemish ( thus Dutch ) in France

* the geographical area comprising the two westernmost provinces of the Flemish Region, West Flanders and East Flanders, parts of a former county named Flanders.

There are currently 20, 000 speakers of a subset of the Dutch dialect West Flemish in the arrondissement of Dunkirk and this particular subset is in danger of extinction within decades.

This goal was finally achieved by a series of laws in the 1920s and 1930s that made Flemish the language of government, education, and the courts in the northern provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders, Antwerp, Limburg, and eastern Brabant.

While the region is predominantly French-speaking, it also has two significant minority language communities: the western Flemings, whose presence is evident in the many Dutch placenames in the area and who speak West Flemish, a dialect of Dutch ( perhaps 20, 000 inhabitants of Nord-Pas-de-Calais use Flemish daily and an estimated 40, 000 use it occasionally, both, primarily in and around the arrondissement of Dunkirk ); and the Picards, who speak the Picard language, or Ch ' ti ( speakers, " chitimi ", have been working to revive the nearly-extinct regional speech since the 1980s ).

) ( Antwerp, 11 ( or 21 ) August 1583, – Amsterdam, 23 December 1651, ) was a Flemish / Dutch merchant and director of the Dutch West India Company from 1622 to 1629 and again from 1636 to 1642.

Bruges ( in English ;,,,,, ) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

The name of Dunkirk derives from West Flemish " dun ( e )" ( dune ) and " kerke " ( church ).

In 1844, John Schwartz, a Flemish traveler, was the first Euro-American to permanently settle in the area of West Sacramento.

West Flanders ( ; West Flemish: West Vloandern ; French: ( Province de ) Flandre-Occidentale ; German: Westflandern ) is the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, also named Flanders, in Belgium.

Most early sources in the West that examine the art of acting (, hypokrisis ) discuss it as part of rhetoric.

In that paper Faraday explained that when an electrolytic cell is oriented so that electric current traverses the " decomposing body " ( electrolyte ) in a direction " from East to West, or, which will strengthen this help to the memory, that in which the sun appears to move ", the anode is where the current enters the electrolyte, on the East side: " ano upwards, odos a way ; the way which the sun rises " (, reprinted in ).

" Ich bin ein Berliner " (, " I am a Berliner ") is a quotation from a June 26, 1963, speech by U. S. President John F. Kennedy in West Berlin.

Jadavpur University (, ) or JU is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal.

Kung fu, gongfu, or gung fu (, Pinyin: gōngfu ) is a Chinese term referring to any study, learning, or practice that requires patience, energy, and time to complete, often used in the West to refer to Chinese martial arts, also known as Wushu.

West Low German, also known as Low Saxon (, ), is a group of dialects spoken in the northwest of Germany and adjacent territories of The Netherlands and Denmark.

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (, ), is a landlocked country in West Africa.

Slovak (, slovenčina, not to be confused with slovenski jezik or slovenščina, the native name of the Slovene language ), is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages ( together with Czech, Polish, Silesian, Kashubian, and

Samaria (), or the Shomron (, ; ;, or, – also known as, ) is a mountainous region in the northern part of the geographical area to the west of the Jordan River, roughly corresponding to the northern part of the West Bank.

Wends (, Old Norse: Vindr,,,, ) is a historic name for West Slavs living near Germanic settlement areas.

The Obotrites (, ), also commonly known as the Obodrites, Abotrites, or Abodrites, were a confederation of medieval West Slavic tribes within the territory of modern Mecklenburg and Holstein in northern Germany ( see Polabian Slavs ).

(, known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan ) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the southwest of the country.

The Wadden Sea (,, Low German: Wattensee or Waddenzee,, West Frisian: Waadsee ) is an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea.

Nantes ' most common nickname is the Venice of the West (, ), a name owing to its position on the river delta of the Loire, the Erdre, and the Sèvre.

Ameland (, West Frisian: It Amelân ) is a municipality and one of the West Frisian Islands off the north coast of the Netherlands.

Kemerovo Oblast (, Kemerovskaya oblast ), also known as Kuzbass () after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subject of Russia ( an oblast ), located in southwestern Siberia, where the West Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains.

Heerenveen (, West Frisian: It Hearrenfean ) is a town in the Heerenveen municipality of the province of Friesland ( Fryslan ), in the north of the Netherlands.

Bolsward (, West Frisian: Boalsert ) is a city in Súdwest Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands.

Dongeradeel (, West Frisian: Dongeradiel ) is a municipality in the northern Netherlands.

" means cum annexis, with annex ) or fully Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland (, West Frisian: Kollumerlân, Gronings: Kölmerlaand ) is a municipality in the northern Netherlands, in the province of Friesland.

Leeuwarderadeel (, West Frisian: Ljouwerteradiel ) is a municipality in the northern Netherlands.

Lemsterland (, West Frisian: Lemsterlân ) is a municipality in the northern Netherlands.

Smallingerland (, West Frisian: Smellingerlân ) is a municipality in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

what is new and compelling is that the West is now but one of several powerful civilizations, or `` systems '', and that one or more of the others may pose a mortal danger to the West.

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.

The wizard who fashioned West Germany's astonishing industrial rebirth is the soul of free enterprise.

He is dedicated to building the nation's strength and, as are all West Germans, to a free Berlin and to reunion with captive East Germany.

The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly toward more firmness or more flexibility.

The West Berlin crisis is being played up artificially because it is needed by the United States to justify its arms drive ''.

The `` West Berlin '' crisis is really an East Berlin crisis.

They are less vocal now, when it is the West Berliners who are migrating.

West Berlin morale is low and, in age distribution, the situation is unfavorable.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.