Gallo

This article explains the Gallo language. For more meanings, see Gallo (disambiguation) .

A bilingual sign on the Rennes metro

"Opening hours of the stations" - a sign on Gallo in the Rennes metro

The Gallo is a minority language spoken in eastern Brittany . Their speakers are called gallots .

In contrast to the Celtic Breton language , it is a Romance language , which, however, has often not even been granted dialect status in scientific discourse . Gallo belongs to the dialect group of the Langues d'oïl and dates back to the first half of the 2nd millennium. The name Gallo probably goes back to the name used by the brittophonic immigrants for the Romanized Gauls of Brittany (cf. bret. Gallaoued , French). Gallo is not to be confused with Breton spoken in West Brittany or with the regional variant of the standard French language, which Gallo has now almost completely displaced. The Gallo language movement has achieved widespread public recognition of Gallo since the 1970s . Today teachers can acquire the state Certificat d'Aptitude à l'Enseignement du Gallo . Basically, it is now possible to take Gallo as an elective at high schools.

As an actually spoken language, Gallo is practically no longer available today. Research from the 1980s and 1990s suggests that gallo is moribund or already extinct.

See also

• Languages ​​in France

Individual evidence

1. ^ Buckley, Thomas (1987): La frontière linguistique breton / gallo dans les environs de Plouha ", in: La Bretagne Linguistique 3, pp. 169-75.

Web links

• Radatz, Hans-Ingo: "French, Breton and ... Gallo - Is Brittany trilingual?", In: Kattenbusch, Dieter (Ed.): K ulturkontakt und Sprachkonflikt in der Romania , Wien 1997, pp. 163–189 ( online ).