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Gallo language. Gallo is a regional language of eastern Brittany. It is one of the langues d'oïl, a Romance sub-family that includes French. Today it is spoken only by a minority of the population, as the standard form of French now predominates in this area.
Gallo is a Romance language spoken in parts of Brittany (Bertâgne) and Normandy in the northwest of France by about 28,000 people. It is an Oïl language, a continuum of languages and dialects spoken in northern France that includes Norman, Picard and Poitevin.
Aug 10, 2019 · This mixture formed the basis of French, Occitan and numerous other Romance languages. Gallo-Roman culture then, was essentially a Gallic culture, peppered by customs from across the Mediterranean, translated into Gallic-Latin hybrids, and overlaid with a political, economic and religious system that empowered the wealthy while providing ...
Based upon mutual intelligibility, David Dalby counts seven languages descended from Gallo-Romance: Gallo-Wallon, French, Franco-Provençal (Arpitan), Romansh, Ladin, Friulian, and Lombard.[8] However, other definitions are far broader, variously encompassing the Rhaeto-Romance languages, Occitano-Romance languages, and Gallo-Italic languages.
Sep 28, 2021 · Keller examines how advocates for Gallo, a marginalized Romance language spoken in Brittany, France, promoted a metalinguistic community where knowledge of Gallo as “a language” (in contrast to its popular designation as “deformed French”) was valued independently of linguistic proficiency.
- Sandra Keller
- slkell1@ilstu.edu
- 2021
The Gallo-Roman period lasted from around the 1 st century BC to the 5 th century AD in most of modern-day France and influenced architecture, language,religion, infrastructure (to give just one example, the famous Pont du Gard aqueduct was constructed during this time), entertainment, literature, and more.
Based upon mutual intelligibility, David Dalby counts seven languages descended from Gallo-Romance: Gallo-Wallon, French, Franco-Provençal (Arpitan), Romansh, Ladin, Friulian, and Lombard. However, other definitions are far broader, variously encompassing the Rhaeto-Romance languages, Occitano-Romance languages and Gallo-Italic languages.
