Eastern Walloon

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Eastern Walloon is a regional variety of the Walloon language spoken primarily in the eastern part of the Walloon-speaking area of Belgium.

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Label Occurrences
Eastern Walloon canonical 2

Statements (36)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance lect
dialect
regional variety of Walloon
belongsTo Walloon language
surface form: Walloon dialect continuum
closelyRelatedTo Central Walloon
Southern Walloon
Western Walloon
country Belgium
endangeredStatus declining intergenerational transmission
hasAncestor Gallo-Romance languages
surface form: Gallo-Romance

Latin
Vulgar Latin
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Dutch
French
German
hasPhonologicalFeatures features typical of Eastern Walloon dialects
ISO639-3 wln (macrolanguage: Walloon)
languageFamily Gallo-Romance languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Oïl languages
Romance languages
partOf Walloon language
primaryRegion eastern part of the Walloon-speaking area of Belgium
sharesFeaturesWith French
other Oïl varieties
spokenIn Province of Liège
Wallonia
eastern areas of the Province of Luxembourg (Belgium)
eastern areas of the Province of Namur
status minority language variety
regional language variety
subdivisionOf Walloon language
usedBy Walloon-speaking community in eastern Wallonia
usedIn local oral communication
regional cultural expressions
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Walloon language hasDialect Eastern Walloon
Southern Walloon closelyRelatedTo Eastern Walloon