Orang Wallonia (bahasa Prancis:Wallons, bahasa Walonia:Walons) adalah sebuah kelompok etnis berbahasa Roman yang sebagian keturunan Jerman dan Keltik[1][2][3] yang menuturkan bahasa Prancis dan tinggal di Belgia. Mereka sebagian besar tinggal di Wallonia dan Brussel. Selain menuturkan bahasa Prancis, mereka juga menuturkan bahasa Wallonia dan bahasa Picard. Kedua bahasa ini merupakan dialek bahasa Prancis.
Referensi
- ↑ A Henri Holt Reference Book, (Page 645: « The Walloons are descended from Germanic (Frankish) invaders who were culturally absorbed into the romanized sphere in which they settled and came to speak a French dialect »
- ↑ Félix Rousseau,La Wallonie, Terre romane, Charleroi, 1993, p.60: brassage humain [melting-pot]... creuset où sont venus se fondre des éléments ethniques surgis [who came] de tous les points de l'horizon [from everywhere]. P. 112: Germanic people named all their neighbours in the South Wahla (...) from which our Walloon is deriving (...) it means the Foreigner, the Celtic people, the Roman people vis-à-vis the German people.
- ↑ Albert Henry, Histoire des mots Wallons et Wallonie, Institut Jules Destrée, Coll. «Notre histoire», Mont-sur-Marchienne, 1990, 3rd ed. (1st ed. 1965), p. 20, following Leo Weinsberger, Die geschichtliche Leistung des Wortes welsch, in Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter, t. XIII, 1948, pp. 87-146, wrote about the Germanic and Celtic prehistory of the word Walloon.
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