Italo-Western languages

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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

See also

• Romance languages
• List of Romance languages

External links

• Italo-Western at Ethnologue

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