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Grand' Place (Grote Markt), Brussels.
Brussels is officially a bilingual city, and in all spheres of public life, Flemish and French are used side by side.1
To ensure this bilingual status, all public signs and government publications in the city must be presented in both languages. While the city maintains this official bilingualism and serves as the dual capital for both the Flemish- and French-speaking communities, French functions as the primary lingua franca of the region, spoken by more than nine-tenths of the population. Additionally, English has become the most common second language for residents, frequently utilized in school and workplace environments.23