Brussels (Belgium)

Brussels is a town in the former province of Brabant. Although historically Dutch-speaking, Brussels became more and more French-speaking over the 19th and 20th centuries. Today a majority of inhabitants are native French-speakers, although both languages have official status. Nevertheless, South Brabant around Nivelles - now Walloon Brabant - some kilometres from Brussels' centre, had always been Romance-speaking except for some bordering villages which were frenchified lately. Most Brusselers have roots in Brabant whether Dutch or Romance as attested by the people's surnames.



Diagram of the Belgian Province of Brabant, which was divided into Flemish Brabant (bright yellow), Walloon Brabant (bright red), and the Brussels-Capital Region (orange)

Sample :



Brief anthropological analysis :

- Type 1 : Light, brachymorphic, developed browridges, high and straight forehead, broad cheekbones, very broad jaw, wide set eyes
~ Borreby



- Type 2 : Light, leptomorphic, leptoprosopic, long nose, dinaromorphism, long and narrow jaw,close-set eyes
~ (Keltic-)Nordic


One can find noticeably darker and somehow stockier variants (larger jaws) which are not uncommon at all in the whole geographic Netherlands :

Extreme "Flemish"-looking individuals :


Once more, this is the infamous "horsy" phenotype so sommon amongst Flemish people and illustrated by Belgian singer Jacques Brel (born in Brussels from West Flemish parents).

Final morphotypes :




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