In modern Belgium, Walloons are, by law, termed a "distinctive linguistic and ethnic community" within the country, as are the neighbouring Flemish, a Germanic group. When understood as a regional identification, the ethnonym is also extended to refer to the inhabitants of the Walloon region in general, regardless of ethnicity or ancestry.
The Flemings, who constitute more than half of the Belgian population, speak Dutch (sometimes called Netherlandic), or Belgian Dutch (also called Flemish by English-speakers), and live mainly in the north and west. The Walloons, who make up about one-third of the Belgian population, speak dialects of French and live chiefly in the south and east.
However, there are Walloons who are able to speak a Belgian Dutch dialect when, for instance, one of their parents is a Fleming, speaking a particular Belgian Dutch dialect. Flemish is an adjective that’s used in combination with cultural, political and geographical subjects.
A few years after the Belgian revolution in 1830, the historian Louis Dewez underlined that "Belgium is shared into two people, Walloons and Flemings. The former are speaking French, the latter are speaking Flemish. The border is clear (...)
In modern Belgium, Walloons are, by law, termed a "distinctive linguistic and ethnic community" within the country, as are the Flemish. Anthropologically and culturally, Walloons are closely linked to the French, sharing both langues d'oïl linguistic background and mixed Celtic, Frankish and Roman descent.
網頁There are three regions in today’s Belgium: the Brussels Capital Region, the Flemish Region in the north, and the Walloon Region of the south. The German and French Communities …
網頁Wallonia, home to the Walloons (3.5 million people), is the Southern region of Belgium where French is the main language (some German is spoken too). Except for the fact that …
網頁Walloons (in fact French-speaking elites who were called Walloons) became politically dominant. Many Flemish immigrants came to work in Wallonia. Between the 1930s and …
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網頁over ten billion euros per year (about 1,734 euros for each Flemish 3. In one small area of Belgium, the East Canton region obtained from Germany after World War I, German is …
網頁2021年7月22日 · Despite—or perhaps because of—these divisions, Flemish and Walloon politicians often disagree about the direction and composition of the overarching federal …
網頁2020年8月19日 · Brussels has a special position and status as the only bilingual area in Belgium. It is seen as a mixture, a combination of the less desirable characteristics of …
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網頁according to each of three criteria available in the 1846 statistical survey, the flemish provinces were more urban than the walloon; and whereas 57.5 percent of the belgian …
Belgium: 3,240,000Canada: 176,615 (Belgians)France: 133,066United States: Indeterminable, (352,630 Belgians)
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