The Walloon language has employed various alphabets over its history, most notably the Feller system (Walloon: sistinme Feller) and Unified Walloon (Walloon: rifondou walon or Walloon: rfondou walon). The Feller system was developed to transcribe Walloon dialects by Jules Feller and was first published in 1900.[1] The same word can be spelled differently depending on dialect, so the word "fish" would be spelled
| + Walloon Alphabet [4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Letter | width=100 | width=100 | width=100 | width=100 | width=100 | width=100 | width=100 | width=100 | width=100 | I | width=100 | J | width=100 | K | width=100 | L | width=100 | width=100 | width=100 | width=100 | width=100 | width=100 | width=100 | width=100 | width=100 | width=100 | V | width=100 | W | width=100 | X | width=100 | Y | width=100 | Z | |||||||||||||||||
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| Name | a | bé | cé | dé | e | effe | gé | ache | i | ji | ka | elle | emme | enne | o | pé | qu | erre | esse | té | u | vé | wé | icse | î gréc / yod | zéde |
Diacritics used in this language are the acute accent (´), grave accent (`), circumflex (ˆ), ring (°), and cedilla (¸). In some dialects, the umlaut (¨) is used.[5] These accents have no effect on the alphabetic order of these letters.
| Grapheme | Pronunciation | |
|---|---|---|
| à | pronounced as /link/ | |
| â | pronounced as /link/ | |
| å | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | |
| ç | pronounced as /link/ | |
| é | pronounced as /link/ | |
| è | pronounced as /link/ | |
| ê | pronounced as /link/ | |
| e̊ (1975-1978) ë (1978-present) | pronounced as /link/ | |
| ì | pronounced as /link/ | |
| î | pronounced as /link/ | |
| ô | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/, ɔ̃ | |
| ö | pronounced as /link/ | |
| ù | pronounced as /link/ | |
| û | pronounced as /link/ |
aî is only used in the Namur dialect.
| Digraph | Pronunciation | |
|---|---|---|
| ae | pronounced as /link//pronounced as /link/ | |
| ai | pronounced as /link//pronounced as /link/ | |
| aî | pronounced as /link/ | |
| an | pronounced as /link//pronounced as /link/ | |
| ån | ? | |
| ch | pronounced as /link/ | |
| dj | pronounced as /link/ | |
| ea | pronounced as /link//pronounced as /link//pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/ | |
| en | pronounced as /link//pronounced as /link/ | |
| én | pronounced as /link//pronounced as /link//pronounced as /link//pronounced as /link/ | |
| eu | pronounced as /link//pronounced as /link/ | |
| ey | pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link//pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link//pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link//pronounced as /link/ | |
| gn/ny | pronounced as /link/ | |
| in | pronounced as /link/ | |
| î-n | pronounced as /link/ | |
| jh | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | |
| oe | pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | |
| oi | pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/ | |
| on | pronounced as /link/ | |
| ou | pronounced as /link/ | |
| oû | pronounced as /link/ | |
| ss | pronounced as /link/ | |
| sch | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | |
| sh | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ | |
| tch | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/ | |
| un | pronounced as /link/ | |
| xh | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ |