Classification and Related Languages
The classification of the Romance languages is inherently difficult, since most of the linguistic area can be considered a dialect continuum, and in some cases political biases can come into play. Along with Latin (which is not included among the Romance languages) and a few extinct languages of ancient Italy, they make up the Italic branch of the Indo-European family.
| Latin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classical Latin | Vulgar Latin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Continental Romance | Sardinian languages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Italo-Western Romance | Eastern Romance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Western Romance | Proto-Italian | Balkan Romance | Dalmatian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ibero-Romance | Gallo-Romance | Italian | Proto-Romanian | Albanian words | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portuguese | Spanish | Occitano-Romance | French | Romanian | Aromanian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Catalan | Occitan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Note that Dalmatian is now generally grouped under Proto-Italian rather than Eastern Romance.
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