Walloon language
Appearance
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 a Romance language. It belongs to the family of the oïl languages along with French, Picard and Norman.
Walloon is spoken in Wallonia in Belgium and in some villages in Wisconsin in the United States.
It has about 3,400,000 speakers.
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