Language
As in all Flemish provinces, the official and standard language of the Antwerp province is Dutch. Common with Flemish Brabant, North Brabant and Brussels, the local dialect is a Brabantian variety.
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“A mind enclosed in language is in prison.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If fancy then
Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task,
Ah, what shall language do?”
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