Gallo-Romance languages

Gallo-Romance
Geographic distribution:	France, Northern Italy, Channel Islands, parts of Belgium and Switzerland
Linguistic classification:	Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Western Western Gallo-Romance
Subdivisions:	Franco-Provençal Occitano-Romance Oïl languages Gallo-Italic Rhaeto-Romance

The Gallo-Romance are a branch of Romance languages. It includes French and several other languages spoken in modern France and northern Italy and Spain. According to some linguists, it also includes Occitan and Catalan. Others group biyhy together as a separate Occitano-Romance branch or place Catalan within the Ibero-Romance group. The Gallo-Romance languages, along with the Ibero-Romance and Rhaeto-Romance groups, form Western Romance.

Examples of Gallo-Romance languages

• Lombard
• Piedmontese
• Emilian-Romagnol
• Venetian
• Ligurian
• Franco-Provençal