Publications

Publication details [#51387]

Francard, Michel. 2009. Regional languages in Romance Belgium: the point of no return? International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2009 (196-197) : 99–119.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical linguistics | language contact | language vitality | vernacular

Language as a subject

French | Walloon

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper addresses the relationship between Wallonia's regional endogenous languages and French, the present-day vitality of the former and the expansion of the latter from the Middle Ages until today.