| The cultural, linguistic, and political divisions between the Walloons and the Flemings are a continuing source of conflict. |
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| The Frenchspeakers, or Walloons, know it is not their own, and the Dutch-speaking Flemish cannot warm to it. |
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| Because of their proximity to France, Walloons hold the French language in high regard, using it as the standard for their own. |
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| Politically, the Walloons have always looked to France as their natural defenders, while the Flemish population has looked to Germany. |
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| Belgium was founded 175 years ago, when the Walloons and the Flemish decided to forge a common national identity. |
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| The Walloons, who live in Belgium's southern provinces, are the country's French-speaking inhabitants. |
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| By 1624, some thirty families, Protestant Walloons, established the first European settlement, New Amsterdam. |
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| The languages of both the Flemings and the Walloons have formal and informal modes of addressing another person. |
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| Both the Flemings and Walloons revolted against Dutch rule, and the new Kingdom of Belgium was established in 1830 as a constitutional monarchy. |
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| This was not a particularly easy task as the country is made up of two predominant peoples, the Flemish and the Walloons. |
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| We were told not to speak too much at all, as you may upset the French, or the Flemish, or the Walloons, or the Dutch, or the organisers. |
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| Ethnic differences between Belgium's Flemings and Walloons have been sources of social conflict. |
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| Many Flemings have always been proficient in French, while Walloons were seldom proficient in Dutch. |
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| Beginning in the sixteenth century, both the Flemish and the French-speaking Walloons to their south came under the rule of a series of foreign powers. |
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| Earlier in 1831 a new Kingdom of the Belgians had been created across the cultural and linguistic differences that divided Walloons, Flemings, and Germans. |
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| Belgium has Dutch-speaking Flemings in the north, French-speaking Walloons in the south, and a small number of German-speaking people near the border with Germany. |
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| And 80 years of nationalist teaching have made Iraqi ethnic tension more like Catalonians in Spain than Walloons in Belgium, and nothing like the Yugoslavs. |
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| Wallonia is named after the Walloons, the population of the Burgundian Netherlands speaking Romance languages. |
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| Vlach is thus of the same origin as European ethnic names including the Welsh and Walloons. |
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| Particularly, among Walloons with the new French language literary and artistic review La Jeune Belgique. |
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| The same etymological origin is shared by the names of various other Celtic or Latin peoples such as the Walloons and the Vlachs, as well as of the Swiss canton of Valais. |
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