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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.
The Romance languages are a group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times and forming a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The major languages of the family include French , Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , and Romanian .
- How did the Romance languages get their name?Contrary to a popular belief that the Romance languages are so named because they are the languages of love, the word Romance indicates the connect...
- Why are the Romance languages gendered?Grammatical gender is used as a way to classify all nouns within a language. Latin originally had a five-case declensional system to classify nouns...
- How many Romance languages are there?What constitutes a language, as distinct from a dialect, is a vexing question, and opinion varies on just how many Romance languages are spoken tod...
Most classifications are, overtly or covertly, historico-geographic—so that Spanish and Portuguese are Ibero-Romance, French and Franco-Provençal are Gallo-Romance, and so on. Shared features in each subgroup that are not seen in other such groups are assumed to be ultimately traceable to languages spoken before Romanization.
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family.
Galician ( / ɡəˈlɪʃən /, [4] / ɡəˈlɪsiən /; [5] endonym: galego ), also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language.
- 2.4 million (2012), 58% of the population of Galicia (c. 1.56 million) are L1 speakers (2007)
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).
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.
