Gallo-Romance
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editEtymology
editProper noun
edit- Alanguage family, comprisingRomance languages spoken inFrance, northernItaly and northernSpain. SpecificallyWalloon,Picard,Norman,French,Franco-Provençal, although broader definitions includeOccitano-Romance,Rhaeto-Romance (Romansch,Ladin,Friulian) and/orGallo-Italic (e.g.Lombard) languages
- Georg Bossong,Classifications, in:2016, Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden (eds.),The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (Oxford Guides to the World's Languages), p. 63ff., here p. 66:
- This contact zone is characterized by numerous transitions and continuities. Gascon and Catalan form a transition between Ibero- and Gallo-Romance; Francoprovençal functions as a mediator between northern and southern Gallo-Romance; and the three dialect groups of Raeto-Romance constitute the transitional area between Gallo-Romance and Italo-Romance, especially the northern Italian dialects which are best grouped under the label 'Gallo-Italic'.
- Georg Bossong,Classifications, in:2016, Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden (eds.),The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (Oxford Guides to the World's Languages), p. 63ff., here p. 66:
- The ancestor language of the Gallo-Romance languages.
- 2003, George Melville Bolling, Bernard Bloch,Language[1], volume79, numbers1-2, page360:
- The first written document in Early Old French orGallo-Romance appeared in 842 (Les serments de Strasbourg 'the Strassburg Oaths'), followed by short religious poems ca. 880.
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Adjective
editGallo-Romance (notcomparable)
- Of or relating to the Gallo-Romance language family or the Gallo-Romance languages.
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