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Originally Posted by Archaea
I thought he was Flamps so your pronounciation may be correct for Flemish, Dutch's sister.
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Having served most of my mission in Flanders, I can tell you that it is prounounced as Creekster suggested, in the Flemish speaking world. I still pronounce it as Archaea originally suggested as I feel like an Alex Trebek wannabe if I prounounce foreign names as they would in the persons home country. While Flemish technically isn't a language all it's own (it's a dialect of the Dutch language) I felt like it was. It took the same effort to learn it as it did to learn Dutch the first time around. At least as far as understanding what I was hearing. They throw a lot of French in as well.
The good news is, I'm fluent in a second and kind of a 3rd language. The bad news is, Dutch and Flemish are both worthless languages to know unless you are on a mission. Oh well.