Italo-Western languages

Italo-Western
Geographic distribution:	Italy, France, Iberia
Linguistic classification:	Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Western
Subdivisions:	Italo-Dalmatian Western Romance
Glottolog:	ital1285[1]

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

Based on mutual intelligibility, Dalby lists four languages: Corsican, Italian (Tuscan–Central), Napolitan–Sicilian, and Dalmatian.^[2]

Dalmatian Romance

• The Dalmatian language was spoken in the Dalmatia region of Croatia. It became extinct in the 19th century.
• The Istriot, spoken on the Istrian peninsula of Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy.

Central-Southern Italian

• The Tuscan language includes Standard Italian and various forms of Regional Italian.
  • The Corsican language is related to Tuscan and has the dialects of Gallurese and arguably Sassarese.
• The Central Italian languages, or Latin-Umbrian-Marchegian, include the varieties of Romanesco and Marchigiano.
• Southern Italian is spoken in Central-Southern Italy.
  • The Neapolitan language is spoken in and around Naples and in the region of Campania.
  • The Abruzzese dialect.
  • The Apulian dialect.
  • The Basilicatan–Lucanian dialect.
• The Italian of the Far South:
  • The Sicilian language is spoken in Sicily; a small portion of southern Campania; central and southern Calabria; and in the Salento peninsula of southern Apulia.

Venetian

• The Venetian language is sometimes added to Italo-Dalmatian when it is excluded from Gallo-Italic, and then usually grouped with Istriot.

Judeo-Italian

Judeo-Italian languages are varieties of Italian used by Jewish communities, between the 10th and the 20th centuries, in Italy, Corfu and Zante.

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Italo–Western Romance". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. David Dalby, 1999/2000, The Linguasphere register of the world's languages and speech communities. Observatoire Linguistique, Linguasphere Press. Volume 2. Oxford.