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

Biography Jules Feller created the Feller system of spelling for the Walloon language, and advocated for the co-teaching of Walloon and French in Wallonia. 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.

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.

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