Italo-Dalmatian | |
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Geographic distribution: |
Italy, Corsica, Croatia |
Linguistic classification: | Indo-European |
Glottolog: | ital1286 |
The Italo-Dalmatian languages, or Central Romance languages, are a group of Romance languages of Italy, Corsica, and, formerly, region of Dalmatia in Croatia.
Italo-Dalmatian can be split into:
The generally accepted four branches of the Romance languages are Western Romance, Italo-Dalmatian, Sardinian and Eastern Romance. But there are other ways that the languages of Italo-Dalmatian can be classified in these branches:
Based on mutual intelligibility, Dalby lists four languages: Corsican, Tuscan, Napolitan–Sicilian, and Dalmatian.
Judeo-Italian languages are varieties of Italian used by Jewish communities, between the 10th and the 20th centuries, in Italy, Corfu and Zante.
There are four main groups of Central-Southern (Centro-Meridionale) Italian dialects or languages:
In addition, some Gallo-Italic languages are spoken in Central-Southern Italy.