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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—so that Spanish and Portuguese are ...
Classification of Romance languages. The internal classification of the Romance languages is a complex and sometimes controversial topic which may not have one single answer. Several classifications have been proposed, based on different criteria. Attempts at classifying Romance languages.
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5.3.2 Classification of Languages. There is no precise figure as to the total number of languages spoken in the world today. Estimates vary between 5,000 and 7,000, and the accurate number depends partly on the arbitrary distinction between languages and dialects. Dialects (variants of the same language) reflect differences along regional and ...
Ibero-Romance: Portuguese, Galician, Asturleonese / Mirandese, Spanish, Aragonese, Ladino; Occitano-Romance: Catalan / Valencian, Occitan (lenga d'oc), Gascon (sometimes not considered part of Occitan); Gallo-Romance: French / Oïl languages, Franco-Provençal (Arpitan); Rhaeto-Romance: Romansh, Ladin, Friulian;
five Romance standards (210-321; see below), together with an overview of issues of classification and nomenclature: 'Romance languages' by J. N. Green (203-09). August Dauses, Die romanischen Sprachen im Vergleich, Stuttgart, Steiner, 91 pp., is an elegant essay on the methodology of classification, bravely tackling both the hier
lems: first, the classification of Romance languages and dialects; and, second, the fragmentation of Latin, a process which, inevitably, entailed the gradual differentiation of the emerging daughter languages. As long as historicism pre-vailed in its unmitigated form (along the line one associates with H. Paul's
