Challenge 52 in 52: French

Well... French is French, nothing to say about that. Plenty of information about it all over the internet. BUT - here's another Romance language spoken in France, and in Britanny.

Gallo

Gallo is a regional language of eastern Brittany. It is today far less commonly spoken than was once the case, the standard form of French now predominating in this area. Gallo is classified as one of the langues d'oïl.

Gallo was originally spoken in the Marches of Neustria, an area now corresponding to the border lands between Brittany, Normandy, and Maine. Gallo was a shared spoken language among many of those who took part in the Norman conquest of England, most of whom originated in Upper (i.e. eastern) Brittany and Lower (i.e. western) Normandy, and thus had its part, together with the much bigger role played by the Norman language, in the development of the Anglo-Norman variety of French which would have such a strong influence on English.

Gallo continued as the everyday language of Upper Brittany, Maine, and some neighbouring portions of Normandy until the introduction of universal education across France, but is spoken today by only a small (and aging) minority of the population, having been almost entirely superseded by standard French.

As a langue d'oïl, Gallo forms part of a dialect continuum which includes Norman, Picard, and the Poitevin dialect among others. One of the features that distinguish it from Norman is the absence of Old Norse influence. There is some limited mutual intelligibility with adjacent varieties of the Norman language along the linguistic frontier and with Guernésiais and Jèrriais. However, as the dialect continuum shades towards Mayennais, there is a less clear isogloss. The clearest isogloss is that distinguishing Gallo from Breton, a Brittonic Celtic language traditionally spoken in the western territory of Brittany.

In the west, the vocabulary of Gallo has been influenced by contact with Breton, but remains overwhelmingly Latinate. The influence of Breton decreases eastwards across Gallo-speaking territory.

English	Gallo	Old French	French
afternoon	vêpré	vespree	après-midi (archaic: vêprée)
apple tree	pommieu	pomier	pommier
bee	avètt	aveille	abeille
cider	cit	cidre	cidre
chair	chaérr	chaiere	chaise
cheese	fórmaij	formage	fromage
exit	desort	sortie	sortie
to fall	cheir	cheoir	tomber (archaic: choir)
goat	biq	chievre, bique	chèvre (slang: bique)
him	li	lui, li	lui
house	ostèu	hostel	maison (hôtel)
kid	garsaille	same root as Old French gars	Same root as gars, garçon
lip	lip	levre	lèvre (or lippe)
maybe	vantiet	puet estre	peut-être
mouth	góll	goule, boche	bouche (gueule = mouth of an animal)
now	astour	a ceste heure	maintenant (à cette heure)
number	limerot	nombre	numéro
pear	peirr	peire	poire
school	escoll	escole	école
squirrel	chat-de-boéz (lit. "woods cat")	escurueil	écureuil
star	esteill	esteile, estoile	étoile
timetable	oryaer	horaire	horaire
to smoke	betunae	fumer	fumer (archaic: pétuner)
today	anoet	hui	aujourd'hui
to whistle	sublae	sibler, sifler	siffler
with	ô or côteu avek	o/od, avoec	avec