Italo-Western languages

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

• Italo-Dalmatian includes Italian, central Italian languages, southern Italian languages, e.g., Neapolitan and Sicilian, as well as Istriot, Judeo-Italian, and the extinct Dalmatian.
• 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:
   1. Western Iberian languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Ladino, Leonese, etc.
   2. The Langues d'oïl (including French) and several other languages of France including Franco-Provençal
   3. The Occitano-Romance languages of Southern France and neighbouring areas include Occitan and Catalan
   4. The Gallo-Italian languages include Piedmontese, Ligurian, Insubric or Western Lombard, Eastern Lombard, Emiliano-Romagnolo, and Venetian
3. The Rhaeto-Romance languages include Romansh of southern Switzerland, Ladin of the Dolomites mountains, Friulian of Friuli

[edit] See also

• Romance languages
• List of Romance languages

[edit] External links

• Italo-Western at Ethnologue