Spanish subgroup

Classification: Indo-European > Italic > GroupRomance > Romance > Italo-Western Romance Languages > Italo-Western Group - Western Subgroup > Gallo-Iberian Group > Ibero-Romance Group > Ibero-Western Group

The Castilian group is made up of the Romance languages descendants of medieval Castilian as well as some Creoles with a Spanish lexical base. Among the historical varieties of this group are:

• Peninsular varieties
  • medieval
  • English, from which most modern varieties are derived both peninsular and extrapensular.
  • Modern peninsular whose regional varieties are divided into:
    • Northern Castellano
    • Southern Castellano
    • Zincaló which is rather a Spanish lyxical cryollo.
• Extra-pensular varieties
  • Sefardi or Ladino (Israel, Turkey, Balkans) who is a descendant of medieval Spanish, not of Auric Spanish, among the subvaries is the judeospañol calco (Morocco, Hispanic)
  • Among the extra-pensular varieties derived from auric Spanish are:
    • Canaries
    • Spanish American with numerous variants.
  • In addition there are Spanish-based Creole languages such as:
    • Chabacano
    • Papiamento
    • Palenquero
  • Varieties of modern Spanish in Africa
    • Ecuadorian Spanish
    • Spanish of Morocco
    • Spanish in Western Sahara'