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	Walloon language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walloon is spoken in Wallonia (in Southern Belgium).
		Nevertheless the Walloon language is still a part of the Walloon heritage and as such is one of the foundations of Walloon ethnicity.
		Walloon was the predominant language of the Walloon people until the beginning of the 20th century, even though they had a passive knowledge of French.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walloon_language (1473 words)

	Wallonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wallonia (French: Wallonie, German: Wallonien, Walloon: Walonreye, Dutch: Wallonië) or the Walloon Region (French: Région Wallonne, Dutch: Waals Gewest) is the predominantly French-speaking region that constitutes one of the three federal regions of Belgium, with its capital at Namur.
		Walloon and Picard dialects used to be the predominant languages of the Walloon people until the beginning of the 20th century; French was the language of the upper class.
		Walloon Region is one of the three regions (southern region, mainly French-speaking, with a population of 3,360,000), the two other regions being the Flemish Region (northern region, mainly Dutch-speaking, with a population of 5,900,000) and the Brussels-Capital Region (officially bilingual French/Dutch but mainly French-speaking, with a population of 980,000).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wallonia (996 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Walloons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		WALLOONS [Walloons], group of people living in S Belgium who traditionally spoke a dialect of French called Walloon, but who today for the most part speak standard French.
		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-speaking Flemings of the northern provinces.
		Protestant solidarity in the eighteenth century: relief efforts of the Walloons for the Polish reformed churches.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/Walloons.asp (338 words)

	Walloon-General Overview
		It is estimated that Walloon is used actively by 10-20% of the total population of Wallonia or between 300,000 and 600,000 people.
		Walloon is a Langue d'oil speech, which developed between the 8th and the 12th centuries from the Gallo-Romance language.
		In 13th-15th centuries Walloon literature is marked by the importance of its local chronicles and its religious tracts and drama.
	www.orbilat.com /Languages/Walloon/Walloon.htm (1735 words)

	Policy and experiences of professional integration of young immigrants in the Walloon region (Belgium)
		According to a summary of the occupational status of Moroccans in the Region by Targosz and Manço (2000), the activity rate of young people aged 19 to 35 was 64% (in the overall adult Moroccan population in Belgium the rate was 71%, 22% of the workers being women).
		In the Walloon Region, there are a large number of institutions striving to combat economic discrimination and promote the socio-professional integration of persons from ethnic or immigrant minorities.
		In the Walloon Region, in 27% of the 201 recruiting situations examined (men, mid-level skills), the employer gave preference to an “ethnic Belgian” candidate rather than to a Belgian applicant of Moroccan descent, despite strictly equal qualifications.
	www.flwi.ugent.be /cie/IRFAM/amanco13.htm (4303 words)

	Language minority as representation
		Walloon is not spoken by enough people to give it prominence over the dominant varieties in the political, economic or educational areas.
		Walloon, the language was in regular use in the 18th century, but as the higher social groups began to adopt French the language.
		The Quebecois people have used their language in the political forum and gained as a result as there is a sufficient proportion of their LV group.
	homepages.uel.ac.uk /3026n/linpage3.htm (1892 words)

	History & News
		The Walloon people were overjoyed to see them and they were all excited about meeting their relatives for the first time.
		Four generations of Belgian people have lived and toiled there since this land was reclaimed from the wilderness and up to three decades ago there were a few old men and women who remembered how this region appeared when they and their parents penetrated into the vast primeval forest to start a new life.
		Walloon is spoken in the southern part of Belgium near the French border, and Flemish is spoken in the northern part of that country, Elmer said.
	www.rootsweb.com /~wipbac/history.htm (3800 words)

	The Walloon language page
		Walloon was "born" between the 8th and the 12th centuries from the remnants of the Latin language brought to our regions by soldiers, merchants and settlers from Rome.
		Walloon is one of those numerous "forgotten languages" (or "regional", "minority", "lesser used", "endangered"...), which have been living in the shadow of a linguistic big brother.
		Walloon is or was spoken also in tiny parts of France (north of the departement of the Ardennes, e.g.
	users.skynet.be /lorint/wallang (2624 words)

	Walloon federation of sheltered workshops
		Its regional executive Power grants different subsidies for the training and the employment of handicapped people but the company of adapted work must be acknowledged by the authority concerned to benefit from those state grants.
		That is why the managers of the companies of adapted work wanted to gather to defend their policy for the handicapped people on the social, legal and economic levels.
		The CAW in Walloon Area, have all, several spheres of activities passing from the craft industry to the advanced technologies.
	www.eweta.be /presenteweta_an.htm (578 words)

	1999 Action Plan for Employment - Investing in People and Jobs - Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Walloon government shall, with the agreement of the social partners, put in charge the Walloon employment observatory of systematically collecting the data about the position and the share of women in each measure or action developed in the context of European outlines.
		People who want to interrupt their career usually resort to this system, which reduces the number of people who start again without reinsertion guarantee.
		For people who make a come-back without being able to use the system of career interruption, measures have been taken in 1998 to facilitate their re-insertion; they can also apply for the plan of "avantages pour l'embauche" and standing in for workers who are interrupting their careers.
	www.logos-net.net /ilo/150_base/en/init/bel_1.htm (18163 words)

	WALLOON PHOBIA: Treatment and Hope
		To add insult to an already distressing condition, most walloon phobia therapies take months or years and sometimes even require the patient to be exposed repeatedly to their fear.
		walloon phobia will likely cost you tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of your lifetime, let alone the cost to your health and quality of life.
		2: walloon phobia: a strong fear of, dislike of, or aversion to the walloons.
	www.changethatsrightnow.com /problem_detail.asp?SDID=6213:1922 (1383 words)

	James Riker: History of Harlem, Chapter II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Devout indeed were its people, Catholics of a loyal type, as was apparent from the number and reputed wealth of the clergy, and the many abbeys and chapters supported by the country at large, from which their superior, the ducal archbishop of Cambray, drew a liberal stipend.
		Traces of a former vassalage were yet visible among this people; but the innumerable wars that had marked their history had served to foster the martial spirit and love of liberty derived from their ancestors.
		The Walloons were of all others most inveterate in their religious attachments; but being essentially French, and living in close proximity to France, the Calvinistic views had found early entrance among them and made many warm adherents.
	home.comcast.net /~t.r.valentine/riker02.html (4649 words)

	Walloon Lake, The Park, Travel Michigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Walloon was named by a local butcher, J.R. Haas, after he had seen the name on an old railroad map.
		After the railroad people investigated they found that years before a group of Walloons, from Belgium had settled the north end of then, Bear Lake.
		Although Walloon is a small village they have a very nice park in town.
	www.fishweb.com /maps/charlevoix/walloon/spillway/index.html (138 words)

	FEAR OF WALLOON: Treatment and Hope
		To add insult to an already distressing condition, most fear of walloon therapies take months or years and sometimes even require the patient to be exposed repeatedly to their fear.
		1: fear of walloon: a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of the walloons, despite the understanding by the phobic individual and reassurance by others that there is no danger.
		2: fear of walloon: a strong fear of, dislike of, or aversion to the walloons.
	www.changethatsrightnow.com /problem_detail.asp?SDID=2058:1922 (1418 words)

	Walloon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Walloons (French Wallons), French-speaking people of central and southern Belgium inhabiting the region of Wallonia.
		Today the people of Belgium are primarily of two ethnic groups, the Flemings (Germanic origin) and the Walloons (Celtic origin, probably with an...
		- French-speaking Belgian: a member of a French-speaking people living in southern Belgium, mainly in the autonomous region of Wallonia, and in neighboring parts of France.
	encarta.msn.com /Walloon.html (98 words)

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		The Walloon Company of Financing and Guarantee for SME, SOWALFIN Ltd, was created on 11 July 2002 by the Walloon Government.
		Walloon Government delegates SOWALFIN to guarantee investments made by business angels in the form of subordinated loans or capital increase.
		The main objective is to promote the development of relations between Walloon businesses and foreign clients, in particular to encourage exports and foreign investment, where this will have a positive effect on economic activity and employment in the Walloon region.
	www.e-unlimited.com /bvs/P200095/sponsors.asp (1561 words)

	Belgium And The Belgian People Before The German Invasion
		The Flemish North is one uniform plain ; the Walloon South-East is mountainous and picturesque.
		The Flemish population is Catholic, as Catholic as the Irish or the French Canadians ; the Walloons are agnostic.
		It is the object of this little book to tell the sad tale of what the little nation has suffered to preserve her own independence and to save the liberties of Europe.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles11/belgium-3.shtml (1565 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:wln
		Central Walloon dialect, Namur, Wavre, and Dinant; Eastern Walloon dialect, Liège, Malmedy, Verviers, Huy, and Waremme; Western Walloon dialect, Charleroi, Nivelles, and Philippeville; Southern Walloon dialect, the Ardennes Region, Marche, and Neufchâteau.
		Walloon developed between the 8th and 12th centuries from remnants of Latin brought to the region by Roman soldiers, merchants, and settlers.
		The eastern subdialect of Walloon is considered to be the more difficult one to understand within Belgium.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=wln (181 words)

	The struggle against world capitalism and linguistic pettiness in Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The PTB is in favour of a united and indivisible Belgium where the democratic rights of the Flemish, French and German speaking people and the population of emigrant extraction would be fully guarantied.
		They wrote phrases that today prove all the absurdity of their political conceptions: "The demand for federalism stems from the awareness of the Flemish and Walloon people that the Belgian state is hindering their development in all fields.
		Integral federalism would give the Walloon working-class movement the possibility to apply structural anti-capitalist reforms." Through nationalism and reforms Wallonia was to go towards socialism: 37 years of intoxication on this theme has led to the dismantling and defeat of the working-class movement in Wallonia.
	www.wpb.be /doc/doc/1may98.htm (7501 words)

	The Walloon language page
		This page is a basic presentation of several aspects of Walloon (a romance language spoken in Wallonia) from the viewpoints of linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology (see our map of Wallonia) and philology.
		It is still possible (and apparently more possible than ten years ago) to live in Walloon with people who speak it, with magazines which use it in writing, with theatres, songs, etc.
		If you are interested in computing, there are two sites for you about Linux in Walloon with explanations on how to make your computer talk to you in Walloon the other (shorter) one should be coming in a few days.
	www.wallonie.com /wallang (3128 words)

	French language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Langue d'Oc, the language where one says oc for "yes" are those dialects in the south of France and northern Spain (Ibero-Romance dialects) which remained closer to the original Latin, like Gascon and Provençal, etc. Romance languages outside of France derive their word for "yes" from sic, Latin for "thus".
		The early middle ages also saw the influence of other linguistic groups on the dialects of France: From the 5th to the 8th centuries, Celtic-speaking peoples from southwestern Britain (Wales, Cornwall, Devon) traveled across the English Channel both for reasons of trade and as a result of the Anglo-Saxon invasions of England.
		The Arab peoples also supplied many words to French around this time period, including words for luxury goods, spices, trade stuffs, sciences and mathematics.
	french-language.ask.dyndns.dk (3148 words)

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		Two score or so of Walloons did not constitute a very formidable nation but the men were reinforced by the women who had an equal voice not only in local affairs but in the General Council of the Federation.
		He was a Unitarian clergyman, a scholar learned in all the learning of the Egyptians and all the other learned peoples of every age and clime, and a gentleman of the most engagingly courteous address; his good manners rested on bed rock foundations, too, and could not be corrupted by evil communications.
		The easygoing people of the Low Countries, never in a hurry, are content to move at a moderate pace, without fretting about speed, taking their comfort as they go.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext05/brfrm10.txt (23223 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Walloon
		A French-speaking people of southern Belgium and parts of northern France.
		The dialect of French spoken by this people.
		referring to the French-speaking people of southern Belgium and parts of northern France.
	all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_project_dictionary/Walloon (226 words)

	Ford Auto Workers Await Word of Potential Job Cuts as Automaker...
		Wake up, Bill and build something that people want to drive and you won't be able to find enough people to man the assembly lines.
		Put in people that really want to be there, make a difference in eneryday production Ford and GM will always be behind.
		To the people that like to work and make a difference in their daily life, jobs, and the world in general...My hats off to you.
	www.topix.net /forum/city/walloon-lake-mi/TCRRGGKMNGQVU2QIL (2108 words)

	Eurovision Song Contest Helsinki 2007 \| Belgium: Max wins first semifinal
		Its not true that Walloon people only vote for walloon candidates.
		Most people in Flanders are NOT like X tra: they DON'T discriminate Walloon people.
		I think it's sad, that someone (he) spends his days correcting articles, looking for the smallest mistakes and tell the people who work with Esctoday how useless they are.
	www.esctoday.com /news/read/4942 (1185 words)

	Kasterlinden School for the Deaf uses SignWriting
		The southern part of Belgium is near France and this is where the people live, whom we call 'Walloon'.
		I suspect the population of deaf people in the German-speaking part of Belgium, must be very small or even none existent.
		The Walloon Sign Language is recognized and used in the schools, but not as an official language.
	www.signwriting.org /belgium/kasterlinden03.html (607 words)

	A Summer with Hemingway's Twin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		To enrich the "Summer People" theme of the Y2K Michigan Hemingway Society conference, a full production of Lucille deView's play, A Summer with Hemingway's Twin, was presented on the stage of the Crooked Tree Arts Center by the Little Traverse Civic Theatre.
		This address, "The Summer People," was given by Lucille deView to the Michigan Hemingway Society during their October 2000 conference.
		Twenty-five years after that enchanted summer at Walloon, I was working alone, late at night, in a storefront newspaper office in strife-torn Northwest Detroit, where I was editing a group of weekly newspapers.
	www.northquest.com /hemingway/conf00/play.html (2900 words)

	Page 3 - Making the podium at both Flanders and Roubaix (will Boonen be given a chance to win?)
		Even the walloon ministers of the belgian government can hardly speak dutch.
		That's what what belgian people in brussels are called.
		This will result in serious problems about paying pensions to the retired people.
	www.cyclingforums.com /t6983-15-3.html (1348 words)

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