Editing Gallo language (section)

==Status==
[[Image:Loudéac bilingual sign Gallo.jpg|left|thumb|The town of [[Loudéac]] displays its Gallo name, ''Loudia'', on signage]]
On December 17, 2004, the [[Regional Council of Brittany]] officially recognized Breton and Gallo as "the official languages of Brittany, alongside the French language."

One of the metro stations of the Breton capital, [[Rennes]], has bilingual signage in [[French language|French]] and Gallo, but generally the Gallo language is not as visibly high-profile as the Breton language, even in its traditional heartland of the {{lang|fr|Pays Gallo}}, which includes the two historical capitals of [[Rennes]] (Gallo ''Renn'', Breton {{lang|br|Roazhon}}) and [[Nantes]] (Gallo ''Nauntt'', Breton {{lang|br|Naoned}}).

Different dialects of Gallo are distinguished, although there is a movement for standardisation on the model of the dialect of [[Upper Brittany]].

It is difficult to record the exact number of Gallo speakers today. Gallo and vernacular French form a sort of continuum, so speakers may have difficulty determining exactly which language they are speaking.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Nolan |first=John Shaun |date=2011 |title=Reassessing Gallo as a regional language in France: language emancipation vs. monolingual language ideology |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269406884 |journal=International Journal of the Sociology of Language |issue=209 |doi=10.1515/ijsl.2011.023|s2cid=147587111 }}</ref> Many people speak Gallo while using a considerable amount of French words and phrases, thus confounding the language question further. Moreover, Gallo speakers may have a tendency to underestimate their competence and choose thus to not report speaking it. This makes estimates of the number of speakers vary widely.<ref name=":0" />