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Western Romance languages are one of the two subdivisions of a proposed subdivision of the Romance languages based on the La Spezia–Rimini Line. They include the Gallo-Romance , Occitano-Romance (sometimes included in on of the two other branches) and Iberian Romance branches.
The Iberian Romance, Ibero-Romance or sometimes Iberian languages are a group of Romance languages that developed on the Iberian Peninsula, an area consisting primarily of Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, Andorra and southern France. They are today more commonly separated into West Iberian and Occitano-Romance language groups.
The five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are Spanish (489 million), Portuguese (240 million), [4] French (80 million), Italian (67 million) and Romanian (24 million), which are all national languages of their respective countries of origin.
Classification of Romance languages - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Attempts at classifying Romance languages. Difficulties of classification. Criteria. The standard proposal. Another proposal. Italo-Western vs. Eastern vs. Southern. The wave hypothesis. Degree of separation from Latin.
Western Romance languages are one of the two subdivisions of a proposed subdivision of the Romance languages based on the La Spezia–Rimini Line. They include the Gallo-Romance, Occitano-Romance (sometimes included in on of the two other branches) and Iberian Romance branches.
hide. Beginning. References. Western Romance languages. The Western Romance languages are a branch of Romance languages. The main languages in the branch are Spanish, French, and Portuguese. The branch has two parts, Gallo-Romance and Iberian Romance. [1] References. ↑ Alina Maria Ciobanu; Liviu P. Dinu (2014).
variation exhibited by the Romance family of languages of a kind unparal-leled for any other Western languages. Asking what Romance languages can do for linguistics, this Handbook is essential reading for all linguists interested in what a knowledge of the Romance evidence can contribute to linguistic theory. adam ledgeway
