Gallo-Romance languages
| Gallo-Romance | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution: |
France, Northern Italy, Channel Islands, parts of Belgium and Switzerland |
| Linguistic classification: | Indo-European |
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The Gallo-Romance branch of the Romance languages includes French (and the other langues d'oïl), the Occitano-Romance subgroup (which includes Occitan and Catalan),[1][2] Franco-Provençal, the Gallo-Italic languages,[3] and other languages.
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Traditional geographical extension [edit]
Historically, various Gallo-Romance languages were spoken in France, except for some outlying regions (Corsica, western Brittany, the Basque Country, Flanders, Alsace and part of Lorraine); the Wallonia region of Belgium; the Romandy region of western Switzerland; the Channel Islands; the Eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula; and in Northern Italy.[4]
Today, a single Gallo-Romance language (French) dominates most of this geographic region (including the formerly non-Romance areas of France), and has also spread overseas. Another, Franco-Provençal, is still commonly spoken in Italy's Aosta Valley. Conversely, English (a Germanic, rather than Romance, language) is now predominant in the Channel Islands.
General characteristics [edit]
See the Romance languages article for a description of the characteristics of Gallo-Romance.
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