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The most spoken Romance languages are Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian . They are called "Romance languages" because they originate from Latin, the language spoken by the Western Roman Empire. Their grammatical inflection system has been simplified and lost most of the complex case structure of classical Latin .
Pages in category "Western Romance languages". This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes . Western Romance languages.
West Iberian is a branch of the Ibero-Romance languages that includes the Castilian languages ( Spanish, Judaeo-Spanish ), Astur-Leonese ( Asturian, Leonese, Mirandese, Extremaduran (sometimes) and Cantabrian ), [1] [2] and the descendants of Galician-Portuguese ( Portuguese, Galician, Eonavian, Fala, Minderico, Cafundó, and Judaeo-Portuguese ).
Southern Romance. The Southern Romance languages are a primary branch of the Romance languages . According to the classification of linguists such as Leonard (1980) and Agard (1984), the Southern Romance family is composed of Sardinian, Corsican, and the southern Lucanian dialects. [1]
Italo-Western is in turn split along the so-called La Spezia–Rimini Line in northern Italy, which is a bundle of isoglosses separating the central and southern Italian languages from the so-called Western Romance languages to the north and west. Some noteworthy differences between the two are:
The Eastern Romance languages are a group of Romance languages. The group, also called the Balkan Romance or Daco-Romance languages , [1] comprises the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian), the Aromanian language and two other related minor languages, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian .
Galician ( / ɡəˈlɪʃən /, [4] / ɡəˈlɪsiən /; [5] endonym: galego ), also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language. Around 2.4 million people have at least some degree of competence in the language, mainly in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it has official status along with Spanish.
