Old Gallo-Romance

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 during the time of Clovis I's successors 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 were reduced from the Latin six to two, as shown in Old Occitan and Old French, with the nominative 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.

References

External links

• Old Gallo-Romance corpus