Italo-Western languages

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Italo-Western is the largest sub-group of Romance languages. It comprises 38 languages in 2 subsets: Italo-Dalmatian, and Western.

• Italo-Dalmatian includes Tuscan, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Corsican, Istriot and the extinct Dalmatian. Italian, a standard language, belongs to this group, being based on the Tuscan.
• The Western branch includes 32 languages in further subsets:

1. The Pyrenean-Mozarabic group consists of two languages in two separate branches: Aragonese and Mozarabic.
2. The Gallo-Iberian group includes Spanish, Portuguese, Galician language, Ladino, Catalan, the Oïl languages (including French) and several other languages of France including Franco-Provençal, and Gallo-Italian and Veneto languages.
   1. The Gallo-Italian languages includes Piedmontese, Ligurian, Insubric or Western Lombard, Eastern Lombard, Emiliano-Romagnolo
   2. The Veneto languages includes Veneto, Istro-veneto
3. The Rhaeto-romance group languages includes Romansh of Switzerland, Ladin of Dolomites area, Marilenghe of Friuli

[edit] See also

• Romance languages
• List of Romance languages

[edit] External links

• Italo-Western at Ethnologue

v • d • e Romance languages
Southern Romance languages: Corsican (Gallurese)  · Sassarese  · Sardinian (Campidanese, Logudorese)
Eastern Romance languages: Romanian (Moldovan, Vlach) · Aromanian · Megleno-Romanian · Istro-Romanian
Italo-Dalmatian Romance languages: Italian (Central Italian, Florentine, Tuscan, Romanesco, Judeo-Italian) · Calabrian · Dalmatian† · Istriot · Neapolitan · Sicilian
Western Romance languages main: Catalan (Balearic, Valencian) · French (incl. Zarphatic†) · Portuguese-Galician (Fala, Galician, Portuguese) · Spanish (Castilian) (incl. Ladino) other Western Aragonese (Mozarabic†) · Franco-Provençal (Bressan, Dauphinois, Forézien, Franc-Comtois, Genevois, Jurassien, Lyonnais, Savoyard, Vaudois) · Astur-Leonese (Asturian, Cantabrian, Extremaduran, Leonese, Mirandese) · Burgundian (Franc-Comtois) · Emiliano-Romagnolo · Francien · Gallo · Ligurian (Genoese, Monégasque) · Lombard (Eastern, Western) · Lorrain · Norman · Occitan (Auvergnat, Aupenc, Gascon (Aranese, Béarnais), Languedocien, Limousin, Provençal (Mentonasque, Niçard)) · Picard (Champenois, Chti/Chtimi, Rouchi) · Piedmontese · Poitevin-Saintongeais · Rhaeto-Romance (Friulian, Ladin, Romansh) · Venetian  · Walloon
denotes Extinct (†); bolded denotes languages with more than 5 million speakers

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