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In Belgium, the French Community ((フランス語:Communauté française)), also controversially called the Wallonia-Brussels Federation ((フランス語:Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles)), refers to one of the three constituent constitutional linguistic communities. This ambiguous term refers to Francophone Belgians, and ''not'' to Frenchmen residing in Belgium. As such, the French Community of Belgium is sometimes rendered in English as "the French-speaking Community of Belgium" for clarity. The Community has its own parliament, government, and administration. Its official flag is identical to the Walloon Flag, which is also the official flag of the Walloons of Wallonia. Wallonia is home to 80% of all Francophone Belgians, with the remaining 20% residing in Brussels, which is the seat of parliament of the French Community. Historically, this community spoke variants of Walloon, Flemish, Picard, Luxembourgish or Moselle Franconian German, but nowadays, the dominant language is overwhelmingly Belgian French, except for some areas alongside the border to the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (mainly the district called Land of Arlon or Arelerland), where Luxembourgish is still widely spoken. ==Description== The French Community of Belgium includes 4.5 million people, of whom: * 3.6 million live in the Walloon Region (that is almost the entirety of the inhabitants of this region, apart from people who live in the German-speaking communes, who number around 70,000); * 900,000〔Xavier Deniau, ''La francophonie'', Presses universitaires de France, 1995, page 27〕 living in the Brussels-Capital Region (out of 1.1 million inhabitants). French speakers who live in the Flemish Region are not included in the official numbers for the French-speaking Community, since the French Community has no jurisdiction in that region. Their number is unknown, given the absence of sub-nationality status and the discouragement of linguistic criteria in census-taking. Estimates of the French-speaking population of Flanders vary from 120,000,〔Frédéric Lasserre, Aline Lechaume, ''Le territoire pensé: géographie des représentations territoriales'', Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2005, page 104〕 around 200,000,〔Catherine Lanneau, ''L'inconnue française: la France et les Belges francophones, 1944–1945'', Peter Lang Verlagsgruppe, collection: ''Enjeux internationaux'', 2008, page 25〕 to around 300,000.〔''L'année francophone internationale, volume 15'', Groupe d'études et de recherches sur la francophonie, Université Laval, 2005, page 25〕 The French Community of Belgium makes up about 41% of the total population of Belgium; 58% of the population belongs to the Flemish Community, and 1% to the German-speaking Community. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French Community of Belgium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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