Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Walloon ( / wɒˈluːn /; natively walon; French: wallon) is a Romance language that is spoken in much of Wallonia and, to a very small extent, in Brussels, Belgium; some villages near Givet, northern France; and a clutch of communities in northeastern Wisconsin, U.S. [4] It belongs to the langues d'oïl language family, the most prominent ...

  2. Walloon belongs to the langues d'oïl or oïl languages, a group of Gallo-Romance languages and dialects that includes standard French, and other languages spoken in northern France, southern Belgium and the Channel Islands. It is closely related to Champagneois and Picard. Walloon began to appear as a distinct language between the 8th and 12th ...

  3. People also ask

  4. Walloon is a Romance language that is spoken in much of Wallonia and, to a very small extent, in Brussels, Belgium; some villages near Givet, northern France; and a clutch of communities in northeastern Wisconsin, U.S.

  5. Walloon is a Romance language that is spoken in much of Wallonia and in Brussels, Belgium; some villages near Givet, northern France; and a clutch of communities in northeastern Wisconsin, U.S. Despite its rich literature, beginning anonymously in the 16th century and with well-known authors since 1756, the use of Walloon has decreased markedly since France's annexation of Wallonia in 1794 ...

  6. The Walloon language has employed various alphabets over its history, most notably the Feller system ( sistinme Feller) and Unified Walloon ( rifondou walon or rfondou walon ). The Feller system was developed to transcribe Walloon dialects by Jules Feller and was first published in 1900. [1] The same word can be spelled differently depending on ...

  1. People also search for