Romance Belgium

Romance Belgium

The Romance Belgium ("Belgique romane" in French), also called Wallonia ("Wallonie" in French) [The "Atlas linguistique de la Wallonie" [The linguistic atlas of Wallonia] is also called "Tableau géographique des parlers de la Belgique romane" [Geographical table of the dialects of the Romance Belgium] ] [fr Albert Henry, "Histoire des mots Wallons et Wallonie", Ed. Institut Jules Destrée, Coll. «Notre histoire», Mont-sur-Marchienne, 1990, 3rd ed. (1st ed. 1965), p. 14.] , is in dialectology the part of the Belgium where people traditionally speak one of the regional romance languages, all from the "Langues d'oïl" group.Romance Belgium includes almost all of Dialectal Wallonia where Walloon language is spoken, a picardic zone corresponding to the major part of the Province of Hainaut, the Pays gaumais (district of Virton) with the Lorrain language and a Champenois zone (Sugny, Bohan, Bagimont, Pussemange, Membre et Cul-des-Sarts).


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