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Aug 24, 2017 · While Gallo-Italic varieties clearly belong to the Romance language family, their subgrouping as either Gallo-Romance or Italo-Romance has been the source of disagreement in the classificatory literature. While earlier analyses tended to classify Gallo-Italic as Gallo-Romance (notably Schmid, 1956; Bec, 1970–1971 ), later work has either argued for or tacitly assumed a classification of ...
Gallo-Italic of Sicily (Italian: Gallo-italico di Sicilia ) is a group of Gallo-Italic languages [clarification needed] found in about 15 isolated communities of central eastern Sicily.
It would be absurd to claim that saying Piedmontese, Ligurian, Lombard, Emilian, Romagnol, Gallo-Italic of Basilicata, and Gallo-Italic of Sicily form a Gallo-Italic branch within Gallo-Romance or Western Romance is the same as saying that these languages are actually one language.
Eastern Lombard is a Romance language of the Gallo-Italic branch, closer to Occitan, Catalan, French, etc. than to Italian, with a Celtic substratum.
The languages of Italy include Italian, which serves as the country's national language, in its standard and regional forms, as well as numerous local and regional languages, most of which, like Italian, belong to the broader Romance group. The majority of languages often labeled as regional are distributed in a continuum across the regions ...
Spasell is a slang of Insubric language, spoken until the 19th century by inhabitants of Vallassina, when they used to go out from the valley for business and they didn't want to be understood by the people. It is characterized by code-words conventionally defined basing on characteristics of the thing or on onomatopoeias; other words have an ...
Emilian-Romagnol ( Italian: emiliano-romagnolo) is a linguistic continuum that is part of the Gallo-Italic languages spoken in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. [3] It is divided into two main varieties, Emilian and Romagnol .
