Lucyin Mahin, alias " Louline Voye ".

my hobby: writer in and researcher on my native Walloon (South-Belgian) endangered language.

my job: veterinary surgeon in Morocco.

• Biographic and bibliographic note.
• Various texts of prose and poetry written since 1981 (presented in french).
• Texts written or readapted in Common Walloon.
• A novel written in 1983 (the story of a lonely child irresistibly attracted by places with water): C' est todi l' aiwe ki doime ki neye. (Mistrust yourselves of the sleeping waters).
• A novel written in 1984 (about an unexpected and pleasant ghost in the Ardennes). Li ptite comére avou l' blanke camuzole (the girl with the white jacket).
• A novel written between 1995 and 2000 (happening in Rwanda and Wallonia): Li batreye des cwate vints (The fight of the four winds).
• A novel, happening among the Crimean Tartars community, begun in 2000, not yet finished: Vera.
• Translation of some sourats of the Quran.

• My journalistic papers. Proze nén racontrece.
• Mi monthly web-magazine. L' Aberteke.

• A library of pre-normalized walloon texts, keeping some of the local accents, but harmonizing their spelling.
• Index of authors published in Common Written Walloon.
• A page on Walloon text about Wisconsin Walloon Community (subtitles in english)

• My first book, with a classical approach of teaching a local dialect, by the way of description of old jobs in the Ardens forest (1984, 1993). Ene båke so les bwès d' l' Årdene.
• The teaching of standardized walloon at a primary school level to my daughter Djihinne: Les scoles da Djihinne. Second year (2002-2003).
• A WEB-page english-walloon-dutch, realised with my son, Edward.

• A walloon explanatory dictionary, under realization, together with P. Sarachaga. Li splitchant motî.
• A book of synthesis, written with 22 other contributors, in 1999. Ké walon po dmwin ?
• My research works, with other volunteers, on the language planning of the Walloon (since 1993). Li waibe do rfondou walon.
• A data base on the Walloon vocabulary of the southern Ardens (High Lesse & Low Semois), achieved of 1995 has 1998. Li Rasgotaedje des Bassårdinreces.
• The harmonization (pre-normalization) of ethnic texts presented on this site.
• Unsolved questions about walloon standardization.
• Working on the Walloon-speaking part of "Wikipedia" encyclopedia.

• My special field experience dealing with bovine theileriosis in Morocco.
• A page on my research to the Agronomic and Veterinary Institute, Rabat, Morocco, (1977-1987)
• Diseases I deal with in my daily practice in Sidi Smaïl, Morokko, since 1989.
• Nitrate poisoning in Doukkala.
• Summer sores due Filariidae in Morocco.

• Memories in pics.
• For 65 birthday of my teaching veterinary parctitionner, Felix Lefèvre (in walloon).
• A private page for Abdel Ayoubi horseback riding club.

A small biographic and bibliographic note.

I began to think that the Walloon was a true language while studying Dutch during my secondary school.

The so-called separable particles weg, uit, neer, voorbij, looked like their Walloon equivalents evoye, foû, djus, houte, and this, even for the syntax. I estimated that an idiom that had another syntax that the neighbor's language had to be a true language. Then, why didn't they study it in class ?

This experience was reported in the Walloon magazine Singuliers, 1993, (2), 13-16 and (3), 13-19.

To continue, here is the bio-bibliographic note, as it will be published in the "Anthology of Writers in Walloon language of the Luxemburg province", Museum of the speech, Bastogne, to appear November 2002:

Some ideas of mine, on how to save "minority languages"

As many other lovers of regional languages of Europe, I am living outside home.

I am deeply convinced that less expanded languages' revival must use modern communication technology.

I also stress that it is not possible to have peole speaking again regional tongues if there is no material advantage in it.

So I am trying to encorage any initiative where it would be possible to make money with walloon. Of course, if political powers would help the trend (for example by asking for a minimum knowledge of walloon for official jobs inside Wallonia), it would be 100.000 times more efficient.

I am not a lenguist, and so I apologize for possible imprecisions or errors in these pages, from a linguistic point of view.

I am a veterinary surgeon, managing a private practice and clinic (bovine and poultry), and a small experimental farm. I have also been a dairy cattle importater from the Netherlands to Morocco, from 1998 to 2001.

I wish to use my enterpreneurial skills for the sake of walloon.

I am married and have four children. I talk with them in walloon since 1994, and we have weekly "walloon hours" since 1996.

  To our on line magazine "L' Aberteke"