Jules Feller (4 November 1859 29 April 1940) was a Belgian professor and a philologist of the Walloon language.

Jules Feller
Jules Feller, 1912
Jules Feller, 1912
Born(1859-11-04)November 4, 1859
Died(1940-04-29)April 29, 1940
Writing career
LanguageFrench and Walloon
GenreLinguistics
Notable worksEssai d'orthographe wallonne, 1900
Notes de philologie wallonne, 1912
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Biography

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Jules Feller created the Feller system of spelling for the Walloon language, and advocated for the co-teaching of Walloon and French in Wallonia.[1] A modified version of his orthographic system is also the basis for writing used for the Picard language, known as the Feller-Carton system, and developed by Fernand Carton in 1963.[2]

He represented Verviers in the Walloon Assembly [fr] from 1919 until his death.[3] He was a member of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature in Belgium.[citation needed]

References

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  1. Hensley, David J. (2008). The Blurred Boundaries of Begianness: Walloon Intellectuals, Pride, and the Development of Regionalist Rhetoric, 1884 - 1914 (M.A. thesis). The Pennsylvania State University.
  2. Kersch, Marcy T. (2016). Publish or perish : linguistic policies and the Picard language of France (M.A. thesis). Northern Illinois University.
  3. Bronlet, Maxime (2024). Les langues régionales et l’enseignement en Belgique francophone [Regional Languages and Education in French-speaking Belgium] (PDF) (Master's thesis) (in French). Université de Liège.