Western Romance languages

Western Romance
Geographic distribution:	France, Iberia
Linguistic classification:	Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Western Western Romance
Subdivisions:	—

The Romance language family (simplified) – click to enlarge

The Western Romance languages are one of the primary subdivisions of the Romance languages. They include at least the following:

• The Pyrenean-Mozarabic group consists of two languages in two separate branches:
  • Aragonese
  • Mozarabic
• The Gallo-Iberian group includes:
  • The Iberian Romance group
    • Western Iberian languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Ladino, Leonese, etc.
    • Eastern Iberian, or Catalan (usually classified as Occitano-Romance, see below)
  • The Gallo-Romance group includes:
    • The Occitano-Romance languages of Southern France and neighbouring areas include Occitan and Catalan
    • The Langues d'oïl (including French) and several other languages of France including Franco-Provençal
    • The Gallo-Italian languages
      • Gallo-Italian proper, including Piedmontese, Ligurian, Insubric or Western Lombard, Eastern Lombard, Emiliano-Romagnolo
      • Venetian
• The Rhaeto-Romance languages include Romansh of Switzerland, Ladin of Dolomites area, Friulian of Friuli

Some classifications include central and southern Italian; the resulting clade is generally called Italo-Western Romance. Other classifications place an Italo-Dalmatian clade in with Eastern Romance. Sardinian does not fit into either Western or Eastern Romance, and may have split off before either.

See also

• Romance languages
• List of Romance languages