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Gallo-Romance

Gallo-Romance proper noun: 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.

Proper noun

Gallo-Romance

  1. 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
    • 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...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
  2. The ancestor language of the Gallo-Romance languages.
    • 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. 880.2003, George Melville Bolling, Bernard Bloch, Language, volume 79, numbers 1-2, page 360

Adjective

Gallo-Romance (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the Gallo-Romance language family or the Gallo-Romance languages.

Origin of Gallo-Romance

From Gallo- + Romance.

Questions about Gallo-Romance

What does Gallo-Romance mean?
Gallo-Romance means 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.
What part of speech is Gallo-Romance?
Gallo-Romance can be a proper noun or an adjective.

Words near Gallo-Romance in the dictionary

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

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