Gallophone

See also: gallophone

English

Alternative forms

• gallophone

Etymology

Gallo- +‎ -phone

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡæl.əˌfəʊn/

Adjective

Gallophone (not comparable)

1. Describing a speaker of French or their culture
   • 1988, Julius Krishner, editor, Italy 1530-1630‎^[1], volume 4, Longman, →ISBN, page 255:

     The Valle d'Aosta also remained French because he had delcared that to be its official language; and he appointed only Gallophone representatives […]

   • 1990, International Third World Studies Journal & Review, volume II, number 1, Media Productions & Marketing, page 83:

     Anglophone and Gallophone communities there began an intensifiation of the long-standing concern for the role of education – and, hence, Symbol Systems Access – which we see in the world's major civilizations, such as the Chinese and the Greco-Roman.

   • 1994, Robert Kelly, Queen of Terrors: Fictions‎^[2], McPherson & Co., →ISBN, page 78:

     […] [T]o write as a native of some gallophone provincial capital, Grenoble, Clermont-Ferrand, Annecy, yet in a language that would be puzzling to a resident even of Rouen, to speak nothing of further away.

   • 1997, Christopher Page, Latin Poetry and Conductus Rhythm in Medieval France‎^[3], Royal Musical Association, →ISBN, page 12:

     The remarks of the Gallophone scholar Pascale Bourgain make interesting reading.

   • 2000 August 6, DaveW Mitchell, “Re: Thoughts on Satie”, in rec.arts.poems‎^[4] (Usenet):

     My French is much too limited and pedestrian to comprehend, let alone translate, the nuances of your piece, so all I can do is tell you what it seems to evoke (from some dim ancestral recess inhabited by my Gallophone forebears) that meshes with my original feelings:

Synonyms

• Francophone