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walloon

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Name — A Romance language traditionally spoken in parts of southern Belgium and a small strip of northern France (around Givet).

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Borrowed from Middle French Wallon (also wallon), which came from Frankish *walh, itself from Proto-Germanic *walhaz, meaning "foreigner". It is cognate with English Welsh and Wales, with the second part of Cornwall and the first part of walnut, and with Gaul and Wallachia.

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