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West Iberian; Western Iberian Romance: Geographic distribution: Iberian Peninsula, Latin America, Africa, Israel, Philippines, East Timor, Easter Island, Goa: Linguistic classification: Indo-European. Italic. Latino-Faliscan. Latin. Romance. Italo-Western. Western Romance. Gallo-Iberian. Iberian Romance. West Iberian; Subdivisions: Asturleonese ...
West Iberian is a branch of the Ibero-Romance languages that includes the Castilian languages, Astur-Leonese, and the descendants of Galician-Portuguese. Pyrenean–Mozarabic may also be included.
The West Iberian languages are a branch of Romance languages. They were first spoken in central and western parts of Iberia. Spanish and Portuguese are the main languages in the branch. They have been spread to Latin America since the colonial era. There are five branches of West Iberian languages.
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Iberian Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula include: The West Iberian languages: The Castilian languages: includes Spanish and Judaeo-Spanish. The Galician-Portuguese languages: includes Portuguese, Galician and Fala. The Astur-Leonese languages: they are, from east to west, Cantabrian, central-eastern Asturian and Leonese proper.
The Iberian language was the language of an indigenous western European people identified by Greek and Roman sources who lived in the eastern and southeastern regions of the Iberian Peninsula in the pre- Migration Era (before about AD 375). An ancient Iberian culture can be identified as existing between the 7th and 1st centuries BC, at least.
- Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula
Ibero-America ( Spanish: Iberoamérica, Portuguese: Ibero-América ), Iberian America, or simply Latin America (though the term has differing definitions ), is generally considered to be the region in the Americas comprising countries or territories where Spanish or Portuguese are predominant languages (usually former territories of Portugal or ...
Physical map of the Iberian Peninsula. The Iberian Peninsula is the westernmost of the three major southern European peninsulas—the Iberian, Italian, and Balkan. It is bordered on the southeast and east by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the north, west, and southwest by the Atlantic Ocean.
