Glossary

Below you will find an overview of a number of commonly used terms that you may need in order to discuss the language situation in Brussels. These words are also explained and linked to throughout the texts, but here you find them in one handy list:

• allochtonous and autochtonous
• community (adjective)
• EU guidelines about language skills
• first language laws
• Flemish Movement
• Flemish struggle for emancipation
• Francophone
• Frenchification
• guest worker
• language census
• language laws 1963
• municipality with (linguistic) facilities
• naturalisation law of 1991
• naturalise
• newcomers and oldcomers
• regional/community government
• regions and communities
• Spirit
• territoriality principle
• Vlaams Belang