Italo‑Western Romance

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Italo‑Western Romance is a major branch of the Romance languages that includes most varieties of Italian and Western Romance tongues such as French, Occitan, and related dialects.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Italo‑Western Romance canonical 2
Italo-Western Romance 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of the Romance languages
linguistic subgroup
alsoKnownAs Italo‑West Romance NERFINISHED
Italo‑Western NERFINISHED
contrastedWith Eastern Romance NERFINISHED
Sardinian Romance NERFINISHED
developedFrom Proto‑Romance NERFINISHED
Vulgar Latin NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution France NERFINISHED
Iberian Peninsula NERFINISHED
Italy NERFINISHED
Switzerland NERFINISHED
Western and Southern Europe NERFINISHED
parts of the Balkans
hasSubgroup Italo‑Dalmatian NERFINISHED
Western Romance NERFINISHED
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
includesLanguage Catalan
Corsican
Dalmatian
Emilian‑Romagnol
French
Friulian NERFINISHED
Galician
Ladin
Ligurian
Lombard NERFINISHED
Neapolitan NERFINISHED
Occitan NERFINISHED
Piedmontese NERFINISHED
Portuguese
Romansh NERFINISHED
Sicilian
Spanish NERFINISHED
Standard Italian NERFINISHED
Venetian NERFINISHED
includesLanguageGroup Gallo‑Italic NERFINISHED
Gallo‑Romance NERFINISHED
Ibero‑Romance NERFINISHED
Italo‑Romance NERFINISHED
Rhaeto‑Romance
Tuscan
partOf Indo‑European languages NERFINISHED
sharesFeature development of definite articles from Latin demonstratives
lenition of intervocalic consonants
loss of Latin case system
palatalization of /k/ and /g/ before front vowels
use of periphrastic perfect tenses
subclassOf Romance languages NERFINISHED
timeDepth emerged between 7th and 10th centuries CE

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Genoese Italian languageFamily Italo‑Western Romance
Genoese dialect languageFamily Italo‑Western Romance
this entity surface form: Italo-Western Romance
Camuno subclassOf Italo‑Western Romance