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
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	UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32
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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

Belgium

600K

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

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