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English
Etymology
Gallo- + Romance
Proper noun
Gallo-Romance
- A language family, comprising Romance languages spoken in France, northern Italy and northern Spain. Specifically Walloon, Picard, Norman, French, Franco-Provençal, although broader definitions include Occitano-Romance, Rhaeto-Romance (Romansch, Ladin, Friulian) and/or Gallo-Italic (e.g. Lombard) languages
- Georg Bossong, Classifications, in: 2016, Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (Oxford Guides to the World's Languages), p. 63ff., here p. 66:
- This contact zone is characterized by numerous transitions and continuities. Gascon and Catalan form a transition between Ibero- and Gallo-Romance; Francoprovençal functions as a mediator between northern and southern Gallo-Romance; and the three dialect groups of Raeto-Romance constitute the transitional area between Gallo-Romance and Italo-Romance, especially the northern Italian dialects which are best grouped under the label 'Gallo-Italic'.
- The ancestor language of the Gallo-Romance languages.
2003, George Melville Bolling, Bernard Bloch, Language, volume 79, numbers 1-2, page 360:The first written document in Early Old French or Gallo-Romance appeared in 842 (Les serments de Strasbourg 'the Strassburg Oaths'), followed by short religious poems ca. 880.
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Adjective
Gallo-Romance (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the Gallo-Romance language family or the Gallo-Romance languages.
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