Iberian Romance Languages - Family Tree

Family Tree

The Iberian Romance languages are conventional Romance languages, many authors use the term in a geographical sense, although they are not necessarily phylogenetic . Phylogenetically, there is a disagreement about whether what languages should be considered within the Iberian Romance group; for example, some authors consider that the East Iberian, also called Occitano-Romance, could be more closely related to languages of northern Italy. A common conventional geographical grouping is the following:

  • East Iberian
  • West Iberian

In what follows we will use the conventional sign † for extinct languages.

  • Iberian Romance languages
    • East Iberian?
      • Catalan
      • Judaeo-Catalan†
    • West Iberian
      • Astur-Leonese
        • Asturian
        • Cantabrian
        • Extremaduran
        • Leonese
        • Mirandese
      • Castilian
        • Spanish
        • Judaeo-Spanish
      • Galician-Portuguese†
        • Fala
        • Galician
        • Judaeo-Portuguese†
        • Portuguese
      • Navarro-Aragonese†
        • Aragonese
        • Judaeo-Aragonese†

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