Gallo-Romance is a branch of the Romance languages that, in its narrowest sense, comprises the langues d'oil and Franco-Provencal, while broader definitions extend it to also cover Occitan, the Gallo-Italic languages and the Rhaeto-Romance languages. Old Gallo-Romance was one of the two languages used in the Oaths of Strasbourg of 842 AD, among the earliest written records of a Romance vernacular. Under the broad definition the family spans France, San Marino, Monaco, the Channel Islands and parts of Italy, Belgium, Spain and Switzerland, along with communities in the Maghreb, Polynesia and Canada left by French colonization.
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RegionFrance, San Marino, Monaco, Channel Islands, and parts of Italy, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, the Maghreb, Polynesia and Canada 1 Proto-Language StatusThe infobox ancestor chain for Gallo-Romance runs Old Latin, Vulgar Latin, Proto-Romance, Old Gallo-Romance: like the wider Romance family, it descends from directly attested Vulgar Latin rather than an unattested proto-language reconstructed by the comparative method. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Gallo-Romance languages
Wikimedia Foundationinfobox, region field
France, San Marino, Monaco, Channel Islands; Parts of Italy, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, parts of Maghreb, Polynesia, Canada
infobox, ancestor field
Old Latin, Vulgar Latin, Proto-Romance, Old Gallo-Romance
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