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Walloons (/ w ɒ ˈ l uː n z /; French: Wallons ⓘ; Walloon: Walons) are a Gallo-Romance [6] [7] ethnic group native to Wallonia and the immediate adjacent regions of Flanders, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
In 2004, a Walloon translation of a Tintin comic was released under the name L'èmerôde d'al Castafiore; in 2007 an album consisting of Gaston Lagaffe comic strips was published in Walloon. Walloon is more distinct as a language than Belgian French , which differs from the French spoken in France only in some minor points of vocabulary and ...
Since Belgium has three national languages — Dutch, French and German — Belgian names are similar to those in the neighbouring countries: the Netherlands, France and Germany. Place names (regions, towns, villages, hamlets) with a particle meaning "from" ( de in French, del in Walloon, or van in Dutch) are the most numerous.
The main symbol is the "bold rooster" (French: coq hardi), also named "Walloon rooster" (French: coq wallon, Walloon: cok walon), which is widely used, particularly on arms and flags. The rooster was chosen as an emblem by the Walloon Assembly on 20 April 1913, and designed by Pierre Paulus on 3 July 1913.
The earliest mentions resembling the French word Wallon that have come down to us are in Latin, clearly indicating its Germanic origin: . Igitur primus Adelardus nativam linguam non habuit Theutonicam, sed quam corrupte nominant Romanam, Theutonice Walonicam (As for the first Adelard, his native language was not Germanic, but the one which, through an erroneous term, is called Romana, while in ...
Wallonia is the name colloquially given to the Walloon Region. The French word Wallonie comes from the term Wallon, itself coming from Walh. Walh is a very old Germanic word used to refer to a speaker of Celtic or Latin (cf. Wales). [1]
Walloon may refer to: Walloons, a French-speaking population of Belgium; Walloon language; Walloon Region or Wallonia in Belgium Walloon Government; Walloon Lake;
Liège (/ l i ˈ ɛ ʒ, l i ˈ eɪ ʒ / lee-EZH, lee-AYZH; [2] [3] [4] French: ⓘ; Walloon: Lîdje; Dutch: Luik ⓘ; German: Lüttich ⓘ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Liège, Belgium.