From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Western Romance languages
Western Romance languages
Western Romance • Western Iberian languages: Spanish,
Portuguese, Galician, Ladino, Leonese, etc.
Geographic France, Iberia • Eastern Iberian, or Catalan (usually classified
distribution:
as Occitano-Romance, see below)
Linguistic classification :
classification: Indo-European • The Gallo-Romance group includes:
• Italic • The Occitano-Romance languages of
• Romance
Southern France and neighbouring areas
• Italo-Western?
• include Occitan and Catalan
• The Langues d’oïl (including French) and
Subdivisions: — several other languages of France including
Franco-Provençal
• The languages
• Gallo-Italian proper, including
Piedmontese, Ligurian, Insubric or
Western Lombard, Eastern Lombard,
Emiliano-Romagnolo
• Venetian
• The include Romansh of Switzerland, Ladin of
Dolomites area, Friulian of Friuli
Some classifications include central and southern Italian;
the resulting clade is generally called Italo-Western Ro-
The Romance language family (simplified) – click to enlarge
mance. Other classifications place an Italo-Dalmatian
clade in with Eastern Romance. Sardinian does not fit
The Western Romance languages are one of the pri-
into either Western or Eastern Romance, and may have
mary subdivisions of the Romance languages. They in-
split off before either.
clude at least the following:
• The group consists of two languages in two separate
branches: See also
• Aragonese
• Romance languages
• Mozarabic
• List of Romance languages
• The group includes:
• The Iberian Romance group
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