Wallon

Some Wallon politicians saw the latest crisis as a Flemish plot to break up Belgium.

Language Dispute Threatens the Future of Belgium | Impact Lab 2010

In Europe, I'm hearing talk of Dutchized versions of Limburgish, mixed Platt-German hybrids and resurgence of Occitan, Wallon and even Provençal from people who speak it as if it was French.

languagehat.com: THE FUTURE OF IRISH. 2004

To give just one example, check out this online dictionary of French family names; here's the etymology of De Gaulle (from the Dawance-Decroix page):Apparemment, il s'agit de la francisation d'un nom flamand, De Walle, qui signifie sans doute le Wallon (= l'étranger, celui qui n'appartient pas au peuple germanique, du vieux-haut-allemand walah = étranger, également à l'origine des toponymes Gaule et Galles).

languagehat.com: LEXILOGOS. 2004

” The constitution consisted of the Wallon amendment accepted on Jan. 30, the Law on the Organization of Public Powers (Feb. 25), the Law on the Organization of the Senate (Feb. 24), and the Law on the Relation of the Public Powers (July 16).

1874, Dec. 23 2001

The Wallon amendment established the principle of a republic.

1874, Dec. 23 2001

He had picked up a good deal of information about the positions and details of the battle, and being naturally a sagacious Wallon, and speaking French pretty fluently, he became the favourite _cicerone_, and every lie he told was taken for gospel.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829 Various

Occasionally a stocky, swarthy individual shows Wallon extraction.

"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie

Gheerart Pinson in 1632, and apparently neither printer nor translator was very proud of the work, for in the 'Apology for Errors' we are told that 'the printer was a Wallon who understood nothing at all English, and the translatresse a woman that had not much skille in the French.'

The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

[Bibliography.] (3) Wallon, H. _Historie de l'esclavage dans l'antiquité. _ 2d ed.,

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

Wallon, in which was made definite provision for the election of the

The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914