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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.
What follows is a non-exhaustive list of inherited French words, past and present, along with words in neighboring or related languages, all borrowed from the Gaulish language (or more precisely from a substrate of Gaulish).
FrenchCognatesEtymologyPossible Celtic Cognatesaller 'to go'FrProv alâ, allar, Friul lâGaul * alluWelsh êl 'that he may go', eled 'go!', ...alose 'shad'Occitan alausa, Prov alauso, La Rochelle ...Gaul alausa 'allis shad'nonealouette 'lark'Walloon alôye, Prov alauza, alauseta, Cat ...Old French aloe, aloue, fr Latin alauda ...OIr elu 'swan', Irish/Scottish eala ...ambassade 'embassy'Prov embeissado, Occ ambaissada, Port ...From Ital ambasciata 'charge, mission, ...OIr amos, amsach 'mercenary, servant', Ir ...Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine).
The Gauls, or les Gaulois in French, were a people who populated most of what is modern-day France (not to mention a significant portion of central Europe) from around the 5th century BC to the 5th century AD.
This paper sheds light on the attitudes that eastern or Upper Breton school pupils have toward their heritage language, Gallo, in the context of recent favourable changes to its socio-political status. Gallo is Brittany's Romance language and, more precisely, its Oïl language variety.
May 23, 2022 · These tools are language lessons, a huge trilingual Gallo-French-English dictionary, a forum where people can ask for help in translation… but also games and a growing corpus of reading material in Gallo on a wide range of topics: the history of Brittany, science and technology, excerpts of classics of literature and of other regional language a...
