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The Iberian Romance languages are a conventional group of Romance languages. Many authors use the term in a geographical sense although they are not necessarily a phylogenetic group (the languages grouped as Iberian Romance may not all directly descend from a common ancestor).
Iberian Romance is also returned as a subgroup, as are North, West, and East Germanic; East and West Slavic; and Goidelic and Brythonic Celtic. Finally, we note some parts of our maximum clade credibility (MCC) tree that are not in line with established classifications.
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What are the Iberian Romance languages?
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What are the different types of Ibero-Romance languages?
Does romance form a typologically coherent linguistic grouping?
Some authors consider that the Ibero-Romance languages encompass only the western and nuclear group and that the so-called "Oriental Ibero-Romance" It really constitutes a separate phylogenetic group with intermediate characteristics between Ibero-Romance and Gallo-Romance.
In relation to the former, the chapter examines whether Romance forms a typologically coherent linguistic grouping, highlighting to what extent the Romance languages form a continuum of mutually intelligible speech varieties, and the shared features, if any, which serve to bind the group together.
The Romance varieties spoken in the Iberian Peninsula fall into three major groups: Galician-Portuguese, Central Ibero-Romance and Catalan. All these varieties have their origins in the evolution of Latin in the northern fringe of the Iberian Peninsula and spread southward in the Middle Ages.
Millions of people across the Iberian Peninsula speak indigenous minority languages, stretching from Portugal in the west, across Spain, and into the southwestern regions of France. Both Catalan in the east and Galician in the west have speakers numbering in the millions individually with many other groups between them.
The Iberian Romance, Ibero-Romance or sometimes Iberian languages 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.
