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The Iberian Romance, Ibero-Romance [3] or sometimes Iberian languages [note 1] 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.
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The Iberian Romance, or Ibero-Romance, languages are a branch of Romance languages. They were first spoken in Iberia. There are two branches of Iberian Romance languages, Occitano-Romance and West Iberian. The main two languages in the branch are Spanish (Castilian) and Portuguese. They came from a dialect of Vulgar Latin spoken in Iberia after ...
The Romance languages, with their mellifluous cadences and rich literary traditions, provide a fascinating lens through which to examine the complexities of linguistic identity, evolution, and cultural influence. Emerging from the vernacular Latin once spoken by the Romans, these languages have traversed a multifaceted journey, branching out ...
Classification methods and problems. Though it is quite clear which languages can be classified as Romance, on the basis primarily of lexical (vocabulary) and morphological (structural) similarities, the subgrouping of the languages within the family is less straightforward. Most classifications are, overtly or covertly, historico-geographic ...
The first attempt to classify the Romance languages was made by Dante Alighieri, in his De vulgari eloquentia (written c.1305).The principal aim of this treatise was the search for a unified literary language in Italy; its publication in the Renaissance, more than two centuries after its composition, incited the debate on the so-called questione della lingua (‘language question’), which ...
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 ...
