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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.

  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 languages include Romansh of Switzerland, Ladin of Dolomites area, Marilenghe of Friuli

See also