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  1. Western Romance languages are one of the two subdivisions of a proposed subdivision of the Romance languages based on the La Spezia–Rimini Line. They include the Gallo-Romance, Occitano-Romance (sometimes included in on of the two other branches) and Iberian Romance branches. Gallo-Italic may also be included.

  2. The Gallo-Romance group includes: The langues d'oïl include French, Orleanais, Gallo, Angevin, Tourangeau, Saintongeais, Poitevin, Bourguignon, Picard, Walloon, Lorrain and Norman. [11] Franco-Provençal in east-central France, western Switzerland and the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy. Formerly thought of as a dialect of either the ...

  3. The Gallo-Italic, Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Cisalpine or simply Cisalpine languages constitute the majority of the Romance languages of northern Italy: Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian, Ligurian, and Romagnol. [3] In central Italy they are spoken in the northern Marches (Gallo-Italic of the Marches); [4] in southern Italy in some language islands in ...

  4. Western Romance literature denotes a genre subset of Romance literature, sometimes referred to as cowboy romance. Works within this category typically adhere to the characteristics of Romance but take place in a western setting, frequently the American frontier. [1] Though often historical, the genre is not restricted to romantic works set in ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Western_filmWestern film - Wikipedia

    Westerns. The Western is a film genre defined by the American Film Institute as films which are "set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier ." [1] Generally set in the American frontier between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, [2] : 557 the genre ...

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  8. 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 ...