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The whole area of what is now northeastern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands has been fought over and changed hands many times in past centuries, so the language and ethnicity of the local populations in several parts has little connection with national boundaries. You find the same all over Europe - pockets of people speaking different languages from the 'national' languages of their countries.

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