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†
- Astur-Leonese
- East Iberian?
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