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Gallo-Italic

Gallo-Italic proper noun: a language family that constitutes the majority of languages of northern Italy, including Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian-Romagnol and Ligurian.

Proper noun

Gallo-Italic

  1. A language family that constitutes the majority of languages of northern Italy, including Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian-Romagnol and Ligurian.
    Synonyms:
    Gallo-Italian

Adjective

Gallo-Italic (not comparable)

  1. in, of or relating to the Gallo-Italic varieties
    • As mentioned above, this process is attested in some varieties of the dialects of north-western Italy—the so called 'Gallo-Italic' dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Ligurian, Emilian, Romagnolo). ][ Stefano Canalis, Metaphony in the Ticino Canton and phonological features, in: 2016, Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Kathrin Linke, Marc van Oostendorp (eds.), Approaches to Metaphony in the Languages of...
    • Dialectologists distinguish Gallo-Italic varieties (Piedmontese, Ligurian, Lombard, Emilian-Romagnol) from Venetan (Venetian, Trentino). In central Italy there are several Tuscan and central varieties (Umbrian, Marchigian, Roman) and southern varieties (Campanian, Abruzzese, Molisan, Calabrese...2007, Mark F. Gilbert, Robert K. Nilsson, Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy, 2nd ed. (1st ed. 1999), p. 144
    Synonyms:
    Gallo-Italian

Synonyms of Gallo-Italic

Origin of Gallo-Italic

From Gallo- + Italic.

Questions about Gallo-Italic

What does Gallo-Italic mean?
Gallo-Italic means a language family that constitutes the majority of languages of northern Italy, including Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian-Romagnol and Ligurian.
What part of speech is Gallo-Italic?
Gallo-Italic can be a proper noun or an adjective.

Words near Gallo-Italic in the dictionary

  1. gallnut
  2. gallnuts
  3. Gallo
  4. Gallo-
  5. Gallo-Italian
  6. Gallo-Italic
  7. Gallo-Roman
  8. Gallo-Romance
  9. Gallo-Romans
  10. galloanseran
  11. galloanserans

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