Italo-Dalmatian languages

Italo-Dalmatian
Geographic distribution	Italy, Corsica, Croatia
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Italic Romance (varies) Italo-Dalmatian

The Italo-Dalmatian languages are a group of Romance languages of Italy (apart from the Gallo‒Italic languages of northern Italy and San Marino), Corsica, and, formerly, the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia. They are sometimes all classified with Romanian as Eastern Romance, sometimes with Western Romance (Gallo-Italic, French, and Iberian) as Italo-Western, and sometimes with the Italian languages in Italo-Western and Dalmatian in Eastern Romance.

Languages

• Dalmatian: Croatia, extinct in the 19th century
  • Regional varieties: Ragusan, Vegliot, Zara
• Istriot, in Istria
• Venetian (controversial)
• Tuscan, including Standard Italian
  • Corsican (with Gallurese and perhaps Sassarese)
• Judeo-Italian
• Central Italian
• Southern Italian in central-southern Italy
  • Southern Marchigiano – Abruzzese
  • Neapolitan in Campania
  • Apulian
  • Lucanian

(also dialects in northern Calabria)

• Extreme Southern Italian
  • Sicilian in Sicily, a small portion of southern Campania, central and southern Calabria and southern Puglia (Salento peninsular)

See also

• Italian dialects