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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.
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]
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 .
Subdivisions: Italo-Dalmatian. Western Romance. The Italo-Western languages are the largest branch of Romance languages. They are made up of two branches, the Italo-Dalmatian languages and the Western Romance languages . Category: Romance languages.
Another common classification begins by splitting the Romance languages into two main branches, East and West. The East group includes Romanian, the languages of Corsica and Sardinia, [9] and all languages of Italy south of a line through the cities of Rimini and La Spezia (see La Spezia–Rimini Line ).
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 .
Gallo-Italic. Rhaeto-Romance. The Gallo-Romance are a branch of Romance languages. It includes French and several other languages spoken in modern France and northern Italy and Spain. According to some linguists, it also includes Occitan and Catalan. Others group both together as a separate Occitano-Romance branch or place Catalan within the ...
