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The Gallo-Romance branch of the Romance languages includes in the narrowest sense the langues d'oïl and Franco-Provençal. [2] [3] [4] However, other definitions are far broader and variously encompass the Occitan or Occitano-Romance, Gallo-Italic [5] [6] or Rhaeto-Romance languages. [7]
Rhaeto-Romance languages can be classified as Gallo-Romance, or as an independent branch of the Western Romance languages. The Gallo-Italic languages . This group includes languages such as Piedmontese , Ligurian , Lombard , Emilian , Gallo-Italic of Sicily , Gallo-Italic of Basilicata .
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Gallo-Italic languages are often said to resemble Western Romance languages like French, Spanish, or Portuguese, and in large part it is due to their phonology. The Gallo-Italic languages differ somewhat in their phonology from one language to another, but the following are the most important characteristics, as contrasted with Italian : [21]
Is Catalan, for instance, Ibero-Romance or Gallo-Romance, given that its medieval literary language was close to Provençal? Do the Rhaetian dialects group together, even though the dialects found in Italy are closer to Italian and the Swiss ones closer to French?
The first attempt to classify the Romance languages was made by Dante Alighieri, in his De vulgari eloquentia (written c.1305).The principal aim of this treatise was the search for a unified literary language in Italy; its publication in the Renaissance, more than two centuries after its composition, incited the debate on the so-called questione della lingua (‘language question’), which ...
Western Romance languages are one of the two subdivisions of a proposed subdivision of the Romance languages based on the La Spezia–Rimini Line. They include the Gallo-Romance, Occitano-Romance (sometimes included in on of the two other branches) and Iberian Romance branches. Gallo-Italic may also be included.
Gallo-Roman culture was a consequence of the Romanization of Gauls under the rule of the Roman Empire. It was characterized by the Gaulish adoption or adaptation of Roman culture, language, morals and way of life in a uniquely Gaulish context. The well-studied meld of cultures in Gaul gives historians a model against which to compare and ...
