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The Walloons, numbering some 3.5 million, reside mostly in the provinces of Hainaut, Liège, Namur, Luxembourg, and Walloon Brabant, in contrast to the Dutch-speakingFlemings of the northern provinces.
The movement for reviving Walloon literature centered in Liège in the 19th cent.; today the language is considered moribund.
Protestant solidarity in the eighteenth century: relief efforts of the Walloons for the Polish reformed churches.
Welsh), a people akin to the French, but forming a separate branch of the Romance race, inhabiting the Belgian provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liege, parts of Luxemburg and southern Brabant, parts of the French departments of Nord and Ardennes, and a few villages in the neighbourhood of Malmedy in Rhenish Prussia.
The Walloons are descended from the ancient Gallic Belgi, with an admixture of Roman elements.
The Walloondialect is a distinct branch of the Romance languages, with some admixture of Flemish and Low German.
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