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.