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Gallo-Romance
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branch of Gallo-Iberian broadly consisting of Gallo-Italic, Gallo-Rhaetian, and Moselle Romance, or narrowly consisting of Franco-Provençal and Oïl
Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- France , San Marino , Monaco , Channel Islands Parts of Italy , Belgium , Spain , Switzerland , parts of Maghreb , Polynesia , Canada
- Linguistic classification
- Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Gallo- Iberian Gallo-Romance
- Early forms
- Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Old Gallo-Romance
- Subdivisions
- Arpitan – Oïl Occitano-Romance Gallo-Italic Rhaeto-Romance Moselle †
- Glottolog
- nort3208 (Northwestern Shifted Romance) , oila1234 (Oil)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Gallo-Romance branch of the Romance languages includes in the narrowest sense the langues d'oïl and Franco-Provençal. However, other definitions are far broader and variously encompass the Occitan or Occitano-Romance, Gallo-Italic or Rhaeto-Romance languages.
Old Gallo-Romance was one of the two languages in which the Oaths of Strasbourg were written in 842 AD.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gallo-Romance” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.