Gallo-Romance languages

Gallo-Romance
Geographic distribution:	France, San Marino, Monaco, Channel Islands Parts of Italy, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, parts of Maghreb, Polynesia, Canada
Linguistic classification:	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Gallo-Iberian Gallo-Romance
Subdivisions:	Arpitan–Oïl Occitano-Romance Gallo-Italic Rhaeto-Romance Moselle †
File:Lenguas galorromance.png Main Gallo-Romance languages in Europe, the languages d'Oïl (with French) in green and Arpitan in blue
File:Gallo-Romance languages.svg Map of native European range of the expanded Gallo-Romance languages. Sometimes these groups are either classified separately or with other linguistic groups

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 both 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