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About the story
What’s with this “Wren” thing?
   The oldest extant version of the fable we are presenting here appeared in 1913 in the first volume of a two-volume anthology of Low Saxon folktales (Plattdeutsche Volksmärchen “Low German Folktales”) collected by Wilhelm Wisser (1843–1935). Read more ...

Wallon

Walloon




Wallonia—land of industry and idyll,
where Gallia borders on Germania

Language information: Walloon is by many people considered a French dialect group, an alternative view being that it is a language in its own right. It is used primarily in the Wallonia region of Belgium. There are speaker communities in Brussels, in the Northern Ardennes in France as well, also in two Luxembourgish towns (Doncols and Sonlez) and in a small region of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA.
      Because of its relatively low social prestige and insufficient public education about it, there is a good deal of ignorance about Walloon even in Wallonia itself. The actual Walloon language is referred to as wallon, as are Walloon-influenced French dialects of Wallonia (which ought to be called français de la Wallonie ‘French of Wallonia’ or français wallon ‘Walloon French’). As a result, even many Wallonians themselves confuse the two. To add to the confusion, the label walon (French wallon) is often also applied to the dialects of the Picard, Lorrain and Champenois languages that are used in Wallonia.
      Like its close relatives French, Champenois and Picard, Walloon belongs to the Oïl group of the Gallo-Romance branch, all of whose members developed on Celtic substrates hailing back to Gaulish predominance of the area.
      Walloon has traditional contacts with Netherlandic language varieties, such as Flemish and Brabantish.

Genealogy: Indo-European > Italic > Romance > Italo-Western > Western > Gallo-Iberian > Gallo-Romance > Gallo-Rhaetian > Oïl > Walloon

Historical Lowlands language contacts: Dutch (Flemish)


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Author: Reinhard F. Hahn


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