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Walloon may refer to:

Belgium

• The Walloons, inhabitants of Wallonia, the southern, French-speaking half of Belgium.
• The Walloon Movement a linguistic and political movement to strengthen Walloon culture and language within Belgium
• Walloon is also the adjective referring
  – either to Wallonia or its people, for instance the Walloon language, the Walloon Parliament and the province named Walloon Brabant, the Walloon Rally
  – or, now most rarely and only within that context, to Wallonia, a former administrative region created on 21 March 1917 by a decree of Moritz von Bissing, General Governor of the occupation authorities of Belgium, within the framework of Flamenpolitik.

Australia

• Walloon, a place in Queensland named after the Belgians from Wallonia.

United States

• Short for Walloon Lake, a lake in northern Michigan, USA.

France

• Stade Ernest-Wallon is a multi-use stadium in Toulouse, France.

People

• Henri-Alexandre Wallon (1812-1904), French historian and statesman.
• Henri Wallon (1879-1962), French Philosopher, Psychologist, and Politician. (Grandson of Henri-Alexandre Wallon.)

Nature

• The Walloon forge, used for the production of oregrounds iron
• The Walloon Coal Measures, coal deposits laid down during the Jurassic age. They are up to 15m thick of sub-bituminous to bituminous coal suited for coking, steam-raising and oil cracking.

See also

• Belgian French

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

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Walloon

Wikipedia

sensu stricto Walloon-speaking area including the small politically French "peninsula" of Givet (red) and boundaries of Wallonia; the inhabitants of both are called "Walloons"; people in North-East area (cut) are German-speaking Walloons

Etymology

French wallon < Old High German ᚹᚨᛚᚺᚨ (walha), “‘foreigner, stranger, speaker of Celtic or Latin’”) < Proto-Germanic *walhiska-.

Proper noun

Walloon

1. The Romance language commonly spoken until the mid-twenties in parts of southern Belgium and northern France (around Givet).

Translations

Noun

Walloon (plural Walloons)

1. An inhabitant of Wallonia, of Belgian nationality, nowadays generally French-speaking, but also possibly German-speaking.
2. An inhabitant of the region of southern Belgium and northern France (around Givet), usually of Belgian nationality.

Translations

Adjective

Walloon (not comparable)

1. Referring to the French-speaking people of southern Belgium and parts of northern France.
2. Referring to the Romance language spoken by this people.

Translations

Related terms

• Wallonia

See also

Walloon edition of Wiktionary

• Flemish
• Fleming

External links

• ISO 639-1 code wa, ISO 639-3 code wln (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Walloon, wln