Walloon language
Romance language indigenous to Belgium and France
Walloon is a Romance language. It belongs to the family of the oïl languages along with French, Picard and Norman.
Walon | |
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Walloon | |
Native to | Belgium, France, United States |
Region | Europe (Walloon Region (federal region), Ardennes), United States (Wisconsin) |
Native speakers | est. 1,120,000 (1998) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | wa |
ISO 639-2 | wln |
ISO 639-3 | wln |
ELP | Walloon |
Linguasphere | 51-AAA-hf |
Walloon is spoken in Wallonia in Belgium and in some villages in Wisconsin in the United States.
It has about 3,400,000 speakers.
Walloon edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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