Editing Walloon language (section)

===Walloon===
Walloon is spoken in the [[Wallonia]] Region in Belgium. In addition, it is spoken in:
* a small part of France: the ''[[Pointe de Givet]]'' in northern [[Ardennes (département)|Ardennes]], and several villages in the [[Nord (département)|Nord ''département'']], making it one of the regional [[languages of France]];
* a small district of [[Door County, Wisconsin]], US, owing to fairly large-scale immigration there in the 19th century;<ref>[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WI/subcollections/BelgAmrColAbout.html "Belgian-American Research Collection"], University of Wisconsin</ref> as well as portions of [[Kewaunee County, Wisconsin]], US, and [[Brown County, Wisconsin]], US;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://phlegmish-walloony.blogspot.com/2015/10/walloon-ancestry-in-wisconsin-usa.html|title=Phlegmish & Walloony: Walloon ancestry in Wisconsin (USA)|last=Mf|date=2015-10-17|website=Phlegmish & Walloony|access-date=2020-01-17}} and [https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/24968/biers_osterhaus.pdf Notes from the Field: Wisconsin Walloon Documentation and Orthography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210618081411/https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/24968/biers_osterhaus.pdf |date=18 June 2021 }} by Kelly Biers and Ellen Osterhaus, ''Language Documentation and Conservation'', Vol. 15, 2021, pp. 1–29</ref> and
* [[Brussels]], by some Walloon residents.

Although Walloon was widely spoken until the mid-20th century, today only a small proportion of the inhabitants of the region are fluent in the language. Those born since the 1970s usually know little more than a few [[idiomatic expression]]s, often [[Profanity|profanities]]. The Walloon language is still part of the Walloon heritage; it is one component of Walloon identity.