Editing Brittany (section)

====Gallo====
{{main|Gallo language}}
[[File:Parcé - panneau D23.jpg|thumb|upright|Signs in Gallo are very rare and the writing systems they use are unknown by most of the speakers.]]
Gallo is spoken on the eastern half of Brittany. It is not itself a Celtic language. Like French, it is also descended from Latin (and is classified in the [[Langues d'oïl]] branch), but has some Celtic influences, particularly in its vocabulary, whereas French has influences from both Celtic ([[Gaulish]]) and [[Frankish language|Frankish]] (the [[Germanic language]] which arrived after Latin in much of the rest of France).

Unlike Breton, Gallo does not have a long promotion history and it is still often perceived as a poor rural dialect. Moreover, because of its linguistic relationship with Gallo, French imposed itself more easily as the main language in [[Upper Brittany]] than in Breton speaking areas. Gallo was simply perceived as an incorrect way of speaking French rather than a separate language. Gallo transmission from parents to children is extremely low and efforts to standardise and publish books in Gallo did not reverse the decline of the language and its lack of [[prestige dialect|prestige]].<ref name="rapport"/>

Gallo is also threatened by the Breton [[language revival]], because Breton is gaining ground in territories that were not previously part of the main Breton-speaking area, and most of all because Breton appears as the national language of Brittany, thus leaving no place for Gallo.<ref name="rapport"/>

Gallo had never been written before the 20th century, and several writing systems were created. They are however rarely known by the population and signs in Gallo are often unreadable, even for fluent speakers. In [[Loire-Atlantique]], where Gallo is not promoted at all by the local authorities, many people do not even know the word "Gallo" and have no idea that it has writing systems and publications.<ref name="rapport">{{cite web|url=http://www.prefics.org/credilif/travaux/RapportGallo1.pdf|title=Pratiques et représentations de la langue et de la culture régionales en Haute Bretagne|author=André Le Coq & Philippe Blanchet|editor=Centre de Recherche sur la DiversitéLinguistique de la Francophonie|year=2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002225736/http://www.prefics.org/credilif/travaux/RapportGallo1.pdf|archive-date=2 October 2013}}</ref>

The Gallo community is estimated at between 28,300<ref>{{cite web |editor=INSEE |title=Langue bretonne et autres langues: pratique et transmission |trans-title=Breton language and other languages: usage and transmission |url=http://www.insee.fr/fr/insee_regions/bretagne/themes/octant/oc92/oc92art3.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.insee.fr/fr/insee_regions/bretagne/themes/octant/oc92/oc92art3.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022}}</ref> and 200,000<ref name="rapport"/> speakers. The language is taught on a non-compulsory basis in some schools, high-schools and universities, particularly in [[Ille-et-Vilaine]].<ref name="rapport"/>