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Gallo-Romance languages

Gallo-Romance languages

Infobox Language family
name=Gallo-Romance
region=France, Spain, northern Italy, Andorra, Monaco, parts of Belgium and Switzerland
familycolor=Indo-European
fam2=Romance
fam3=Italo-Western
fam4=Gallo-Iberian
child1=Gallo-Italian
child2=Oïl languages
child3=Franco-Provençal
child4=Occitano-Romance
child5=Rhaetian languagesThe Gallo-Romance branch of Romance languages includes French, Occitan, Arpitan, and several other languages spoken in modern France and northern Italy. The Gallo-Romance languages, along with the Ibero-Romance and Rhaeto-Romance groups, form Western Romance.

Examples of Gallo-Romance languages

*Arpitan
*French
*Occitan
*Gallo-Italian [ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90077 Ethnologue report for Gallo-Italian ] ]
**Emilian-Romagnol
**Eastern Lombard
**Western Lombard
**Ligurian
**Piedmontese
**Venetian

References

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90076 Ethnologue report for Gallo-Romance]


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