Southern Romance

E515092

Southern Romance refers to a subgroup of the Romance languages spoken in southern Europe, typically including varieties such as Italian, Sardinian, and related dialects, distinguished by shared historical and linguistic features.

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Label Occurrences
Southern Romance canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance language subgroup
linguistic classification
derivedFrom Vulgar Latin NERFINISHED
developedFrom Latin spoken in the Italian Peninsula
distinguishedBy lexical similarities
shared historical features
shared morphological features
shared phonological features
shared syntactic features
hasLinguisticAncestor Classical Latin NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature synthetic verb conjugations
hasPart Calabrian Romance NERFINISHED
Central Italian dialects
Corsican
Gallurese NERFINISHED
Italian
Neapolitan NERFINISHED
Sardinian NERFINISHED
Sassarese
Sicilian
Tuscan
hasPhonologicalFeature loss of most Latin case endings
vowel reduction in unstressed syllables (in many varieties)
hasSubgroup Corsican-related varieties
Italo-Romance NERFINISHED
Sardinian NERFINISHED
hasSyntacticFeature use of definite and indefinite articles
hasTypologicalFeature gendered noun system
predominantly SVO word order
rich verbal inflection
use of prepositions instead of case endings
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
languageFamily Italo-Dalmatian NERFINISHED
Romance
Sardinian language group NERFINISHED
relatedTo Gallo-Romance NERFINISHED
Iberian Romance NERFINISHED
sharesFeatureWith Eastern Romance NERFINISHED
Western Romance NERFINISHED
spokenInRegion Corsica NERFINISHED
Italy NERFINISHED
Sardinia NERFINISHED
Southern Europe NERFINISHED
subclassOf Indo-European languages NERFINISHED
Romance languages NERFINISHED
timeOfFormation Early Middle Ages
usedFor everyday communication
literary expression

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Western Romance contrastedWith Southern Romance