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Today the four most widely spoken standardized Western Romance languages are Spanish (c. 486 million native speakers, around 125 million second-language speakers), Portuguese (c. 220 million native, another 45 million or so second-language speakers, mainly in Lusophone Africa), French (c. 80 million native speakers, another 70 million or so ...
The Rhaeto-Romance languages. They include Romansh of Switzerland, Ladin of the Dolomites area, Friulian of Friuli. Rhaeto-Romance languages can be classified as Gallo-Romance, or as an independent branch of the Western Romance languages. The Occitano-Romance languages of Southern France and East Iberia, includes Occitan and Catalan.
Iberian Romance languages (2 C, 1 P) P. Pyrenean-Mozarabic languages (1 C, 5 P) V. Venetian language (16 P) Pages in category "Western Romance languages"
Romance; Latin/Neo-Latin: Geographic distribution: Originated in Old Latium on the Italian peninsula, now spoken in Latin Europe (parts of Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, and Western Europe) and Latin America (a majority of the countries of Central America and South America), as well as parts of Africa (Latin Africa), Asia, and Oceania.
Italo-Western is in turn split along the so-called La Spezia–Rimini Line in northern Italy, [15] which is a bundle of isoglosses separating the central and southern Italian languages from the so-called Western Romance languages to the north and west. Some noteworthy differences between the two are:
The parent language of most of the Italo-Western Romance languages (which includes the vast majority) actually had a seven-vowel system /a ɛ e i ɔ o u/, which is kept in most Italo-Western languages. In some languages, like Spanish and Romanian, the phonemic status and difference between open-mid and close-mid vowels was lost.
The sequence /lj/ yielded the palatal lateral [ʎ] throughout Western Romance as well as in Southern and Central Italy. [47] Like [ɲ], the resulting [ʎ] is geminated in Central and Southern Italian, and was in Western Romance prior to the general simplification of geminates in most languages from that branch. [48]
Length of the Roman rule and the Romance Languages [15] Romance languages in Europe (major dialect groups are also shown). European extent of Romance languages in the 20th century Eastern and Western Romance areas split by the La Spezia–Rimini Line; Southern Romance is represented by Sardinian as an outlier. Romance languages in the World ...