Old Gallo-Romance language

Old Gallo-Romance is a Romance language spoken from around 600 to 900 AD. It evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken by the Gallo-Romans which was during the times of Clovis I's successours belonging to the Merovingian dynasty.

Characteristics

• Like other Romance languages, Old-Gallo Romance distinguished the masculine and feminine forms.
• The noun forms in Old Gallo-Romance was reduced two from the Latin six, as shown in Old Occitan and Old French, with the nomantive ending being -s.
• Old Gallo-Italic appears to have used V2 word order.

Literature

Old Gallo-Romance literature consists of a few texts, with them including the Oaths of Strasbourg (also written in Old High Frankish). Texts that precede the Oaths of Strasbourg include the Kassel and Reichenau glosses.

Sample text

The following text is Louis the German's oath in the Oaths of Strasbourg (843), which was sworn in Romance.

Pro Deo amur et pro christian poblo et nostro commun saluament, d'ist di en auant, in quant Deus sauir et podir me dunat, si saluarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo, et in adiudha et in cadhuna cosa, si cum om per dreit son fradra saluar dift, in o quid il mi altresi fazet. Et ab Ludher nul plaid nunquam prindrai qui meon uol cist meon fradre Karle in damno sit.

English translation:

References

External links

• Old Gallo-Romance corpus

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