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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 Historical area of development for strict Gallo-Romance. | |
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)
Other possible classifications
Some specialists add Catalan[2] and it is sometimes classified together with Occitan inside an Occitano-Romance subgroup too.[3]
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.
General characteristics
See the Romance languages article for a description of the characteristics of Gallo-Romance.
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