many final letters. Gallo has evolved continuously since the medieval period, and an earlier stage referred to as "Old Gallo" can therefore be identified.

Moreover, because Old French itself was only weakly standardized, medieval writers used terms and constructions characteristic of their own regions. As a result, traces of Old Gallo can be found in medieval writings from Upper Brittany.

The Oïl languages belong to the group of Gallo-Romance languages, which also includes Franco-Provençal,

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