Gallo-Italic
Sign in to saveAlso known as Gallo-Italic languages, Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Italian languages, Gallo-Cisalpine, Gallo-Cisalpine languages, Cisalpine, Cisalpine languages, Cisalpine Latin
language family
Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Italy , San Marino , Switzerland , Monaco , France
- Linguistic classification
- Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Gallo-Iberian Gallo-Romance Gallo-Italic
- Subdivisions
- Piedmontese Ligurian Lombard Emilian-Romagnol ( Emilian • Romagnol • Gallo-Picene ) Siculo-Lombard Lucano-Lombard ( disputed Venetian )
- Glottolog
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via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Gallo-Italic or Gallo-Italian languages constitute the majority of the Romance languages of northern Italy: Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian, Ligurian, and Romagnol. In central Italy they are spoken in the northern Marches (Gallo-Italic of the Marches); in southern Italy in some language islands in Basilicata (Gallo-Italic of Basilicata) and Sicily (Gallo-Italic of Sicily).
Although most publications define Venetian as part of the Italo-Dalmatian branch, both Ethnologue and Glottolog group it into the Gallo-Italic languages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gallo-Italic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.