Wisconsin Walloon

{{Short description|North American isolated variant of Walloon language}}

{{stack|{{Infobox language

| name = Wisconsin Walloon

| states = Wisconsin, United States

| region = Door Peninsula

| speakers = <50

| date = 2021

| ref = {{Sfn|Biers|Osterhaus|2021|p=1}}

| familycolor = Indo-European

| fam2 = Italic

| fam3 = Latino-Faliscan

| fam4 = Latin

| fam5 = Romance

| fam6 = Italo-Western

| fam7 = Western Romance

| fam8 = Gallo-Iberian?{{Cite web |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/oila1234 |title=Glottolog 4.8 - Oil |date=2022-05-24 |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=Glottolog |last=Hammarström |first=Harald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111104954/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/oila1234 |archive-date=2023-11-11 |url-status=live |publisher=Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian}}

| fam9 = Gallo-Romance

| fam10 = Gallo-Rhaetian?

| fam11 = Arpitan–Oïl

| fam12 = Oïl

| fam13 = Walloon

| fam14 = Central

| ancestor = Old Latin

| ancestor2 = Vulgar Latin

| ancestor3 = Proto-Romance

| ancestor4 = Old Gallo-Romance

| ancestor5 = Old French

| isoexception = dialect

| glotto = none

}}}}

File:Tchanson longuès pupes tere Walons Wisconsene.jpg

Wisconsin Walloon is a dialect of the Walloon language brought to Wisconsin by immigrants from Wallonia, the largely French-speaking region of Belgium. It is spoken in the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin, United States.{{Sfn|Biers|Osterhaus|2021|p=1}}

The speakers of Wisconsin Walloon are descendants of the Belgian immigrants that came from the wave of immigration lasting from 1853–1857 that was recorded to have brought around 2,000 Belgians to Wisconsin.{{cite web |last1=Tinkler |first1=Jacqueline |title=THE WALLOON IMMIGRANTS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN: AN EXAMINATION OF ETHNIC RETENTION |url=https://rc.library.uta.edu/uta-ir/bitstream/handle/10106/11844/Tinkler_uta_2502M_12187.pdf |website=University of Texas Arlington Libraries Research Commons |access-date=28 May 2022}} It is sometimes referred to by its speakers in English as "Belgian".{{Sfn|Biers|Osterhaus|2021|p=2}} Walloons in Wisconsin and descendants of native Walloon speakers have since switched to English, and as of 2021, it has fewer than 50 speakers.{{Sfn|Biers|Osterhaus|2021|p=1}}