From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gallo-Romance languages
Gallo-Romance languages
Gallo-Romance of Belgium; the Romandy region of western Switzerland;
the Channel Islands; portions of the Spanish Pyrenees;
Geographic France, Northern Italy, Channel Islands, and in Northern Italy.[4]
distribution: parts of Belgium, Spain and Switzerland
Today, a single Gallo-Romance language (French)
Linguistic Indo-European dominates most of this geographic region (including the
classification:
classification: • Romance formerly non-Romance areas of France), and has also
• Western
spread overseas. Another (Franco-Provençal) is still com-
• Gallo-Iberian
• monly spoken in the Val d’Aosta. Conversely, English (a
Germanic, rather than Romance, language) is now pre-
Subdivisions: Franco-Provençal dominant in the Channel Islands.
Occitano-Romance
Oïl languages
Gallo-Italic General characteristics
The Gallo-Romance branch of Romance languages in- See the Romance languages article for a description of
clude French and the other langue d’oïl dialects, Occitan the characteristics of Gallo-Romance.
(langue d’oc), Catalan, Franco-Provençal, Gallo-Italic,[1]
and other languages (sociolects) External links
• Ethnologue report for Gallo-Romance
Other possible classifications
Some specialists add Catalan language[2] and it is some- References
times classified together with Occitan inside an Occitano-
Romance subgroup too.[3] [1] G.B. Pellegrini, "Il cisalpino ed il retoromanzo,
1993". See also "The Dialects of Italy, edited by
Maiden & Parry, 1997
Traditional geographical ex- [2] Pierre Bec, La langue occitane, éditions PUF, Paris,
tension [3]
1963. p. 49–50.
Charles Camproux, Les langues romanes, PUF 1974. p.
Historically, various Gallo-Romance languages were spo- 77–78.
ken in France, except for some outlying regions (Corsica, [4] Bec, p. 9–11.
western Brittany, French Basque country, French Flan-
ders, Alsace and part of Lorraine); the Wallonia region
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