an ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and eastern Belgium and neighboring parts of France
dialect of French spoken in Belgium and adjacent parts of France an ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and eastern Belgium and neighboring parts of France a member of the French-speaking people living in Belgium
[ wä-'lün ] (noun.) 1567. French wallon Old High German ᚹᚨᛚᚺᚨ (walha, “foreigner, stranger, speaker of Celtic or Latin”) *walhiska-. Cognate to Welsh and first part of walnut.