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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 their ancestral language.
The Walloon language, widespread in use up until the Second World War, has been dying out of common use due in part to its prohibition by the public school system, in favor of French. Starting from the end of the 19th century, the Walloon Movement , aiming to assert the identity of Walloons as French-speaking (rather than Walloon speaking ...
A medical text from the early 15th century displays the situation by using the Walloon weris "healed" alongside the Middle French garira "will heal". [7] Walloon toponyms and proper nouns, as well as some words for common objects could be found written in dialect, often spelled in distinctive ways, using graphemes like xh and ea .
The Gaulish language, and presumably its many dialects and closely allied sister languages, left a few hundred words in French and many more in nearby Romance languages, i.e. Franco-Provençal (Eastern France and Western Switzerland), Occitan (Southern France), Catalan, Romansch, Gallo-Italic (Northern Italy), and many of the regional languages of northern France and Belgium collectively known ...
The second-most spoken primary (Belgian) language, used natively by approximately one third of the population, is French. [3] It is the official language of the French Community (which, like the Flemish Community, is a political entity), the dominant language in Wallonia (having also a small German-speaking Community), as well as the Brussels ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Walloon on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Walloon in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The Walloon language, spoken in the provinces bearing this name, differs significantly from the Flemish spoken in the other provinces. The ancient French language emerged from the ruins of Latin under Charlemagne and was spoken in both France and the Walloon provinces in the centuries following his reign. This old language was called Romance or ...
In addition to the main language French, Picard is spoken in the western and central parts of the province, while in the eastern part a mixture of Walloon and Picard is spoken (Wallo-Picard). Some Flemish and Brabantic dialects of Dutch are spoken in the municipalities bordering the Flemish region.
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