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Italo-Western languages

Italo-Western
Geographic
distribution:
Italy, France, Iberia
Linguistic classification: Indo-European
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: ital1285
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Italo-Western is, in some classifications, the largest branch of the Romance languages. It comprises two of the branches of Romance languages: Italo-Dalmatian and Western Romance. It excludes the Sardinian language and Eastern Romance.

Based on mutual intelligibility, Dalby lists four languages: Corsican, Tuscan, NapolitanSicilian, 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.

Based on mutual intelligibility, Dalby lists a dozen languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Asturian-Leonese, Aragonese, Catalan, Gascon, Provençal, Gallo-Wallon, French, Franco-Provençal, Romansh, and Ladin.


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