Language code: wa
Technical information about ISO 639 language code wa
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The table below provides technical details for the Walloon language, designated by the wa code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Walloon Native Walon |
| Family | Romance |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Western WalloonCentral WalloonEastern WalloonSoutheastern Walloon |
| Related languages | PicardNormanLorrainChampenoisFrench |
| Key facts | Belongs to the Oïl branch of the Romance familyContains a high proportion of Germanic loan-words due to centuries of contact with Low Franconian dialectsStandard orthography uses the special letter å to mark the open /ɔ/ vowelFirst known continuous texts appear in the 16th century, with spelling largely stabilised during the 19th-century Liège schoolClassified by UNESCO as a definitely endangered language |
| Sample phrase | Bondjoû, cômint est a vos ? |
| Character encodings | |
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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
600K
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Walloon speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
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- Glossary
- Reports and Statistics
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- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
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- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ