Related Languages
The family is most closely related to its nearest neighbors: French, Franco-Provençal, Occitan, Gallo-Italian (Piedmontese, Ligurian, Lombard, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Venetian), and Istriote. A number of lexical items are shared with Ibero-Romance due to the similar date of latinization for both regions, although it can also be explained by means of Bartoli's areal linguistics theory, being Ibero-romance a lateral area, as it is Balkano-romance, Southern-Italian and Rhaeto-romance, while Gallo-romance and Italo-romance are central area.
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