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Biers, Kelly; Osterhaus, Ellen – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
Wisconsin Walloon is a heritage dialect of a threatened language in the langue d'oïl family that originated in southern Belgium and expanded to northeastern Wisconsin, USA in the mid-1850s. Walloon-speaking immigrants formed an isolated agricultural community, passing on and using the language for the next two generations until English became the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dialects, Immigrants, Agricultural Occupations