Extinct Gallo-Romance dialect of the Moselle valley, Germany
Moselle Romance
Native to
Germany
Region
Along the Moselle River near France
Extinct
11th century
Language family
Indo-European
Italic
Latino-Faliscan
Latin
Romance
Italo-Western
Western Romance
Gallo-Iberian
Gallo-Romance
Gallo-Rhaetian?[1]
Arpitan–Oïl?
Oïl?
Moselle Romance
Early forms
Old Latin
Vulgar Latin
Proto-Romance
Old French?
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Map of Latin Europe. The region where Moselle Romance was spoken lies in the light blue area near the current border between Germany & Belgium.
Moselle Romance (German: Moselromanisch; French: Roman de la Moselle) is an extinct Gallo-Romance (most probably Langue d'oïl) dialect that developed after the fall of the Roman Empire along the Moselle river in modern-day Germany, near the border with France. It was part of a wider group of Romance relic areas within the German-speaking territory.[2] Despite heavy Germanic influence, it persisted in isolated pockets until at least the 11th century.[3]
^Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (24 May 2022). "Oil". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 8 October 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
^Haubrichs, Wolfgang (2003). "Die verlorene Romanität im deutschen Sprachraum". In Gerhard Ernst; Martin-Dietrich Gleßgen; Christian Schmitt; Wolfgang Schweickard (eds.). Romanische Sprachgeschichte. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 695–709. ISBN 9783110194128.
^Post, Rudolf (2004). "Zur Geschichte und Erforschung des Moselromanischen". Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter. 68: 1–35. ISSN 0035-4473.
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