Linguists had long classified Walloon as a dialect of French, which in turn is a langue d'oïl. Like French, it descended from Vulgar Latin. Arguing that a French-speaking person could not understand Walloon easily, … See more

The Walloon alphabet generally consists of the basic ISO Latin Alphabet, and six types of diacritic. It also makes frequent use of digraphs. … See more

Language family
Walloon is distinguished from other languages in the langue d'oïl family both by archaism coming … See more

Walloon was the predominant language of the Walloon people until the beginning of the 20th century, although they had a passing knowledge of French. Since that time, the use of French has spread to the extent that now only 15% of the Walloon population speak … See more

Walloon
Walloon is spoken in the Wallonia Region in Belgium. In addition, it is spoken in:
• a small part of France: the Pointe de Givet in northern Ardennes, and several villages in the Nord département, making it one of the regional See more

From a linguistic point of view, Louis Remacle has shown that a good number of the developments that we now consider typical of Walloon … See more

Walloon-language literature has been printed since the 16th century, or at least since the beginning of the 17th century. It had its "golden age" during the peak of the Flemish immigration to Wallonia in the 19th century: "That period saw an efflorescence of Walloon … See more