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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 .
Les langues italo-romanes constituent un sous-ensemble des langues romanes, dont le représentant le plus connu est l' italien littéraire, mais qui comporte un grand nombre de dialectes (plus de deux cents). On distingue en son sein deux groupes clairement différenciés, séparés par un grand faisceau d' isoglosses, la ligne Massa-Senigallia ...
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Based on mutual intelligibility, Dalby counts thirteen languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Asturleonese, Aragonese, Catalan, Gascon, Provençal, Gallo-Wallon, French, Franco-Provençal, Romansh, Ladin and Friulian. Some classifications include Italo-Dalmatian; the resulting clade is generally called Italo-Western Romance.
to the earliest attested stage of the language concerned. This works well enough for the languages usually studied: Italian, French and Provengal, and the Iberian languages, since 'Vulgar Latin' as usually set up is essentially equivalent to the ancestral form of these languages, i.e. the intermediate stage of Proto-Italo- Western Romance.
This chapter provides a critical overview of the sociolinguistic situation in Italy focusing on the relationships between the standard language and the many Italo-Romance varieties that contribute to the linguistic landscape.
- Gaetano Berruto
Jul 1, 2011 · PDF | The relative status of dialects and Italian and the different patterns of language use have given rise to potentially different speech communities... | Find, read and cite all the...
Italian is a major language in Europe, being one of the official languages of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and one of the working languages of the Council of Europe. It is the second-most-widely spoken native language in the European Union with 67 million speakers (15% of the EU population) and it is spoken as a ...