Italo-Western
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branch of the Romance languages
Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Italian Peninsula , Switzerland , France , Istria , Channel Islands , Iberia
- Linguistic classification
- Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western
- Early forms
- Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance
- Subdivisions
- Italo-Dalmatian Western Romance Venetian ( Franco-Italian ) †
- Glottolog
- ital1285
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- language family
- Subclass of
- Romance languages
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- topic's main category
- Category:Italo-Western languages
- Commons category
- Italo-Western languages
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Encyclopedic overview
Italo-Western is, in some classifications, the largest branch of the Romance languages. It comprises two of the branches of Romance languages: Italo-Dalmatian and Western Romance. It excludes the Sardinian language and Eastern Romance.
Italo-Dalmatian languages
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