Language code: wa

Technical information about ISO 639 language code wa

The table below provides technical details for the Walloon language, designated by the wa code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

wa

Name

Official

Walloon

Native

Walon

Family
Romance
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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Walloon is part of the Indo-European language family, specifically within the Romance subgroup. It is primarily spoken in the Wallonia region and in some parts of Brussels, Belgium. Walloon is written using the Latin script (Walloon alphabet). It is estimated that there are between 300,000 and 600,000 speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Walloon speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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