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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.
- 191,000 (2012)
- Upper Brittany
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.
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 .
Other than southern Occitano-Romance, the Gallo-Romance languages are quite innovative, with French and some of the Gallo-Italian languages rivalling each other for the most extreme phonological changes compared with more conservative languages. For example, French sain, saint, sein, ceint, seing meaning "healthy, holy, breast, (he) girds ...
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 ...
Sep 28, 2021 · Socialization. Positionality Statement. I first encountered Gallo while serving as a high-school English language assistant in Brittany, France. Born and raised in the United States, I am a native speaker of neither Gallo nor French.
Oct 31, 2018 · In the 10th century, the Gallo-Romance language took on hundreds of forms and dialects. Under the influence of the Franks, a group of languages emerged in the North: the so-called languages of Oïl, while in the more Romanized South, there was the birth of the languages of Oc (Oïl and Oc both mean oui).
