| Gallo-Romance | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
France, Spain, northern Italy, Andorra, Monaco, parts of Belgium and Switzerland |
| Genetic classification: |
Indo-European Romance Italo-Western Gallo-Iberian Gallo-Romance |
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The Gallo-Romance branch of Romance languages includes French, Occitan, Franco-Provençal, 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. Like all Romance languages, the Gallo-romance languages are derived from Latin. They have developed as a subgroup via one Gallo-Romance proto-language which was spoken in Gaul between the fourth and ninth centuries.
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