Iberian Romance languages

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Iberian Romance
Geographic
distribution:
Originally Iberia and southern France; now worldwide
Linguistic classification: Indo-European
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: sout3183  (Shifted Iberian)[1]
unsh1234  (Aragonese–Mozarabic)[2]

The Iberian Romance, Ibero-Romance or simply Iberian languages[3] are the Romance languages that developed on the Iberian Peninsula, an area consisting primarily of Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra, and in southern France.

Originating in Iberia, the most widely spoken Iberian Romance languages are Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Galician.[4] These languages also have their own regional and local dialects. Based on mutual intelligibility, Dalby counts seven languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Astur-Leonese, Aragonese, Catalan, Provençal, and Gascon.[5]

Origins and development

Linguistic map of southwestern Europe

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Like all Romance languages,[6] the Iberian Romance languages descend from Vulgar Latin. Vulgar Latin was the nonstandard (in contrast to Classical Latin) form of the Latin language spoken by soldiers and merchants throughout the Roman Empire. With the expansion of the empire, Vulgar Latin came to be spoken by inhabitants of the various Roman-controlled territories. Latin and its descendants have been spoken in Iberia since the Punic Wars, when the Romans conquered the territory[7] (see Roman conquest of Hispania).

The modern Iberian Romance languages were formed roughly through the following process:

Statuses

Politically (not linguistic genetically), there are four major officially recognised Iberian Romance languages:

Additionally, the Asturian language, although not an official language,[22] is recognised by the Spanish autonomous community of Asturias. In Portugal, Mirandese, which, like Asturian, is part of the Astur-Leonese group, has official status in the northernmost part of the country.[23]

Family tree

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Ibero-Romance languages around the world
Ibero-Romance languages in Iberia
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The Iberian Romance languages are a conventional group of Romance languages. Many authors use the term in a geographical sense, although they are not necessarily a phylogenetic group (i.e. the languages grouped as Iberian Romance may not all directly descend from a common ancestor). Phylogenetically, there is disagreement about what languages should be considered within the Iberian Romance group; for example, some authors consider that East Iberian, also called Occitano-Romance, could be more closely related to languages of northern Italy (or also Franco-Provençal, the langues d'oïl and Rhaeto-Romance). A common conventional geographical grouping is the following:

  • East Iberian
  • West Iberian

Daggers (†) indicate extinct languages

See also

References

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  4. Ethnologue: Statistical Summaries
  5. David Dalby, 1999/2000, The Linguasphere register of the world's languages and speech communities. Observatoire Linguistique, Linguasphere Press. Volume 2. Oxford.[1]
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  13. Promotora Española de Lingüística – Lengua Española o Castellana. (Spanish)
  14. Ethnologue: Table 3. Languages with at least 3 million first-language speakers
  15. See Ethnologue
  16. Constitution of Andorra (Article 2.1)
  17. Pierre BEC (1973), Manuel pratique d’occitan moderne, coll. Connaissance des langues, Paris: Picard
  18. Domergue SUMIEN (2006), La standardisation pluricentrique de l'occitan: nouvel enjeu sociolinguistique, développement du lexique et de la morphologie, coll. Publications de l'Association Internationale d'Études Occitanes, Turnhout: Brepols
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  23. See: Euromosaic report

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