Wisconsin Walloon

North American isolated variant of Walloon language

Wisconsin Walloon
Native to	Wisconsin, United States
Region	Door Peninsula
Native speakers	<50 (2021)^[1]
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Gallo-Romance Gallo-Rhaetian^[2] (possibly) Oïl Walloon Wisconsin Walloon
Early forms	Old Latin Classical Latin Vulgar Latin Old Gallo-Romance Old French
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Wisconsin Walloon is a dialect of the Walloon language descendant from central Walloon. It is spoken in the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin, United States.^[1]

The speakers of Wisconsin Walloon are descendants of the Belgian immigrants that came from the wave of immigration lasting from 1853–1857 that was recorded to have brought around 2,000 Belgians to Wisconsin.^[3] It is sometimes referred to by its speakers in English as "Belgian".^[4] Descendants of native Walloon speakers have since switched to English, and as of 2021, it has fewer than 50 speakers.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Biers & Osterhaus 2021, p. 1.
^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Oil". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2022-10-08. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
^ Tinkler, Jacqueline. "THE WALLOON IMMIGRANTS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN: AN EXAMINATION OF ETHNIC RETENTION" (PDF). University of Texas Arlington Libraries Research Commons. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
^ Biers & Osterhaus 2021, p. 2.

Bibliography

Biers, Kelly; Osterhaus, Ellen (2021). "Notes from the Field: Wisconsin Walloon Documentation and Orthography" (PDF). Language Documentation and Conservation. 15: 1–29.

Gallo-Romance languages and dialects

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