Italo-Western languages

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

• Italo-Dalmatian includes Italian, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Istriot, Judeo-Italian, and the extinct Dalmatian.
• 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:
1. Eastern Iberian languages: Catalan
2. Western Iberian languages: Spanish (Castillano), Portuguese, Galician language (Galego), Ladino, Leonese, etc.
3. the langues d'oïl (including French) and several other languages of France including Franco-Provençal
4. the Langues d'oc of Southern France and neighbouring areas including Provençal, Gascon etc.
5. The Gallo-Italian languages include Piedmontese, Ligurian, Insubric or Western Lombard, Eastern Lombard, Emiliano-Romagnolo
6. The Veneto languages includes Veneto, Istro-veneto
• The Rhaeto-Romance languages include Romansh of Switzerland, Ladin of Dolomites area, Friulian of Friuli

See also

• Romance languages
• List of Romance languages

External links

• Italo-Western at Ethnologue