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