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Gallo did not gain national recognition until the Constitution of France was amended in 2008. Article 75-1 asserts that "regional languages are part of the French heritage". Moreover, Gallo is the only langue d'oïl to be recognized as a regional language by the French Ministry of Education. Nevertheless, like all of the other regional ...
- 191,000 (2012)
- Upper Brittany
Brittany became a part of France in 1532, and in 1539 French was imposed as the sole official language of France. French replaced Gallo as the language of official records and courts. Until the late 19th century, around 14 million people in France spoke French as a first language. French was a foreign language for the rest of the population ...
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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...
- Sandra Keller
- slkell1@ilstu.edu
- 2021
Gallo is Brittany's Romance language and, more precisely, its Oïl language variety. Situated in the application of language emancipation and in considera- tions regarding attitudes and ideology and their importance to language policy, this is an analysis which provides an example of how the Gallo sociolinguistic situation is a case of ...
- Sandra Keller
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. galo.
Jun 6, 2011 · Reassessing Gallo as a regional language in France: language emancipation vs. monolingual language ideology June 2011 International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2011(209):91-112
Aug 24, 2007 · Gallo was replaced by French as the language of record and the courts, leading progressively to a situation of diglossia where French became language of the dominant minority and Gallo and Breton remained the unofficial languages of the majority.
