American, Australian, Canadian, Brazilian and Swiss are not languages). Using the term Flemish for the official language in Flanders is therefore not correct: the official language in Flanders is (standard) Dutch.ap showing the dialects spoken in the Benelux: many people in Flanders speak a dialect and the common Flemish, and understand spoken Dutch; in writing, the dialects are hardly used, while Flemish and Dutch are nearly identical in this regard. Belgian Dutch (Belgisch-Nederlands [ËbÉlÉ£is ËneËdÉrlÉnts].
Representative - The other type of democracy is a representative democracy. This is where the people elect representatives to run the government. Another name for this type of democracy is a democratic republic. The United States is a representative democracy.
Countries designated electoral democracies in Freedom House's 2016 survey Freedom in the World, covering the year 2016. Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative republic, or psephocracy) is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.