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
Walloon
Native toBelgium, France, United States
RegionEurope (Walloon Region (federal region), Ardennes), United States (Wisconsin)
Native speakers
est. 1,120,000 (1998)
Language codes
ISO 639-1wa
ISO 639-2wln
ISO 639-3wln
ELPWalloon
Linguasphere51-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.