Gallo-Romance

English Etymology From en 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 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. en 2003 George Melville Bolling; Bernard Bloch Language 79 1-2 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uncKAQAAMAAJ&q=Serments+de+Strasbourg%7COaths+of+Strasbourg+Gallo-Romance&dq=Serments+de+Strasbourg%7COaths+of+Strasbourg+Gallo-Romance&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiik7m3_ujLAhXGWhQKHVYTBc0Q6AEIRDAH 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. Translations Dutch: nl Gallo-Romaans n Italian: it galloromanzo m Occitan: oc galloromanic m Adjective - Of or relating to the Gallo-Romance language family or the Gallo-Romance languages. Translations Dutch: nl Gallo-Romaans Italian: it galloromanzo en Language families