Italo-Western languages

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The Romance language family (simplified) - click to enlarge

Italo-Western is the largest sub-group of Romance languages. It comprises 38 languages in 2 subsets: Italo-Dalmatian, and Western.

Italo-Dalmatian includes Tuscan, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Corsican, Istriot and the extinct Dalmatian. Italian, a standard language, belongs to this group, being based on the Tuscan.
The Western branch includes 32 languages in further subsets:

The Pyrenean-Mozarabic group consists of two languages in two separate branches: Aragonese and Mozarabic.
The Gallo-Iberian group includes Spanish, Portuguese, Galician language, Ladino, Catalan, the Oïl languages (including French) and several other languages of France including Franco-Provençal, and Gallo-Italian and Veneto languages.
1. The Gallo-Italian languages includes Piedmontese, Ligurian, Insubric or Western Lombard, Eastern Lombard, Emiliano-Romagnolo
2. The Veneto languages includes Veneto, Istro-veneto
The Rhaeto-romance group languages includes Romansh of Switzerland, Ladin of Dolomites area, Marilenghe of Friuli

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[edit] External links

Italo-Western at Ethnologue

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Romance languages

Eastern

Romanian (Moldovan, Vlach) ♦ Aromanian ♦ Megleno-Romanian ♦ Istro-Romanian

Southern

Sassarese ♦ Sardinian (Campidanese, Logudorese)

Italo-
Western

Italo-
Dalmatian

Italian (Central Italian, Tuscan, Corsican cismontano, Romanesco) ♦ Dalmatian † ♦ Istriot ♦ Judeo-Italian ♦ Neapolitan (Calabrian), ♦ Sicilian

Gallo-
Iberian

Gallo- Italian	Emiliano-Romagnolo ♦ Ligurian (Genoese, Monégasque) ♦ Lombard (Eastern, Western, Gallo-siculo) ♦ Piedmontese ♦ Venetian

Gallo- Rhaetian	French ♦ Franco-Provençal ♦ other Oïl (Burgundian, Champenois, Franc-Comtois, Gallo, Lorrain, Norman, Picard, Poitevin, Saintongeais, Walloon) ♦ Rhaeto-Romance (Friulian, Ladin, Romansh)

Oc	Catalan (Algherese, Balearic, Central, Valencian) ♦ Occitan (Auvergnat, Gascon, Languedocien, Limousin, Vivaro-Alpine, Provençal, Shuadit †)

Iberian	Astur-Leonese (Asturian, Cantabrian, Extremaduran, Leonese, Mirandese) ♦ Portuguese* (inc. Barranquenho) & Galician (inc. Fala, Eonavian) ♦ Spanish (Castilian)* (Latin American, Peninsular, incl. Ladino, Caló)