Walloons are a Gallo-Romance ethnic group native to Wallonia and the immediate adjacent regions of Flanders, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Walloons primarily speak langues d'oïl such as Belgian French, Picard and Walloon. Walloons are primarily Roman Catholic, with a historical minority of Protestantism which dates back to the Reformation era.
Walloons wearing Gilles masks in Binche
Georges Simenon, 1963
César Franck
Godfrey of Bouillon, 1330
Walloon is a Romance language that is spoken in much of Wallonia and, to a very small extent, in Brussels, Belgium; some villages near Givet, northern France; and a clutch of communities in northeastern Wisconsin, U.S.
Hèsta, the Walloon name of the city of Herstal
An auberge's sign in Crupet
Bilingual French-Walloon street sign in Fosses-la-Ville
The singer William Dunker [wa] (right)