Jules Feller (4 November 1859 – 29 April 1940) was a Belgian academician and Walloon militant.

Biography

Jules Feller created the of spelling for the Walloon language. This is also used for writing the

Picard language Picard (, also , ) is a ''langue d'oïl'' of the Romance language family spoken in the northernmost part of France and Hainaut province in Belgium. Administratively, this area is divided between the French Hauts-de-France region and the Belgian ...

since a consensus arose between universities in favour of the written form known as ''Feller-Carton'' (based on the Walloon spelling system – which was developed by Feller and adapted for Picard by Prof.

Fernand Carton Fernand Carton (4 September 1921 – 16 November 2019) was a French linguist who specialized in Picardic dialects. Biography After passing the Agrégation de Lettres classiques exams in 1958, Carton published numerous articles in the field of p ...

). He represented Verviers in the from 1919 until his death. He was a member of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature in Belgium. {{DEFAULTSORT:Feller, Jules People from Roubaix Linguists Members of the Belgian Federal Parliament Members of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique 1859 births 1940 deaths