Italian-Western Romance languages

Classification of romance languages according to Koryakov Y.B.

Classification: Indo-European > Italic > Romance >

The Italo-Western languages is a denomination used by Ethnologue to classify the Romance languages, based on the assumption that leaving aside variants of Sardinian and Corsican, the rest of the Romance languages are divided into two main groups: Western Romance (or Western-Italian in their terminology) and Eastern Romance.

However, this classification is not considered phylogenetic because Italo-Romance languages share many isoglosses, lexical similarities, and syntax with Balco-Romance languages, so they are commonly included within the Eastern Romance languages. Italo-Romance languages cannot be grouped with Western Romance because they have the plural in (-i, -e), do not voice voiceless intervocalic stops, retain the intervocalic -cl cluster, intertonic vowels, intervocalic -d, and moans, features which Western Romance lost, the feminine participle ends in -ta, the evolution of the vowels is different, and the final Latin -s are lost. In syntax, pronouns, possessive adjectives go after the word and the use of articles to strictly refer to one thing is mandatory. These features of Italo-Romance are shared only with Eastern Romance, but not with Western Romance.

Group languages

The Western-Italo group of languages is the largest group of Romance languages. It comprises 38 languages in 2 branches: Italo-Dalmatian and West Italo-Western. Italo-Western Romance languages

• Italo-dálmatas languages
• Western subgroup

The detailed classification used by Ethnologue is as follows:

• Galo-Ibérico
  • Galo-Romance
    • Galo-Itálico
    • Galo-Rético
      • Oïl
        • French Group
        • Southeast Group
      • Rheetic
  • Ibero-Romance Group
    • Ibero-Oriental
      • Occitan
      • Catalan-valenciano-balear
    • Ibero-West
      • Astur-Leonés
      • Castellano
      • Galaico-Portuguese
• Pirenaico-Mozárabe
  • Pyrenean
    • Aragonés
  • Mozárabe