Languages of Brunant

Brunant has two official languages, Dutch and English. When Carrington introduced English and brought many English speakers, there began to arise tensions related to language. Much like in Belgium, there was the issue of prominent Dutch-speaking towns like Chester, Koningstad and Carrington becoming increasingly Anglicised. This brought the issue up of which language(s) should/would be official, and where would they be official (which region). Like in Belgium there was the system of assigning areas to the English community and the Dutch community. This arrangement, however, would not last well in the 20th century. Here there was an increased amount of internal immigration and displacement, which saw many Dutch speakers move to traditional English-speaking areas such as Cape Cross, and vice-versa. By the 1930s many towns had a near equal representation of Dutch-and-Anglophones. The solution was found in the Jensen-Bockstein Commission of 1953, which stated that bilingualism would be the best solution. The government soon made it mandatory for children to learn the official language which was not maternal. Over time schooling became fully bilingual, with students having to take half their classis in Dutch and half in English. Nowadays while most of Brunant has an official-language majority in all its parishes all citizens are fluent in both.