Western Romance
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subdivision of the Romance languages
Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- France , Iberia , Northern Italy , and Switzerland
- Linguistic classification
- Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Romance
- Early forms
- Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Proto-Italo-Western Romance Proto-Western Romance
- Subdivisions
- Ibero-Romance Gallo-Romance Disputed branches:, • Occitano-Romance , • Pyrenean – Mozarabic
- Glottolog
- west2813
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Encyclopedic overview
The Romance language family (simplified) Western Romance languages are one of the two subdivisions of a proposed subdivision of the Romance languages based on the La Spezia–Rimini Line. They include the Ibero-Romance and Gallo-Romance. Gallo-Italic may also be included. The subdivision is based mainly on the use of the "s" for pluralization, the weakening of some consonants and the pronunciation of "Soft C" as /t͡s/ (often later /s/) rather than /t͡ʃ/ as in Italian and Romanian.
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