Italo-western_languages

"Italo-Western" redirects here. For the film genre, see Spaghetti Western.

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:

1. The Pyrenean-Mozarabic group consists of two languages in two separate branches: Aragonese and Mozarabic.
2. 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
3. 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

v • d • e Romance languages
Southern	Corsican (Gallurese) ♦ Sassarese ♦ Sardinian (Campidanese, Logudorese)
Eastern	Romanian (Moldovan, Vlach) ♦ Aromanian ♦ Megleno-Romanian ♦ Istro-Romanian
Italo- Western	Italo- Dalmatian Italian (Central Italian, Tuscan, Romanesco) ♦ Calabrian ♦ Dalmatian † ♦ Istriot ♦ Judeo-Italian ♦ Neapolitan ♦ 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 (Balearic, 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 (Castillian) (incl. Ladino, Caló) other Aragonese ♦ Mozarabic †
† denotes Extinct ♦ bolded denotes languages with more than 5 million speakers

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