West Iberian languages
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Castilian languages
)West Iberian | |
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Western Iberian Romance | |
Geographic distribution | Iberian Peninsula, Latin America, Africa, Israel, Philippines, East Timor, Easter Island, Goa |
Linguistic classification | Indo-European
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Subdivisions |
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Glottolog | west2838 unsh1234 |
Languages of the Iberian Peninsula West Iberian Romance:
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West Iberian is a branch of the
Mozarabic
) may also be included.
Until a few centuries ago, they formed a
Catholic Monarchs
, who privileged Castilian Spanish over the other Iberian languages), Spanish and Portuguese have tended to overtake and to a large extent absorb their sister languages while they kept diverging from each other.
There is controversy over whether the members of the modern Galician-Portuguese and Astur-Leonese sub-groups are languages or dialects. A common, though disputed, classification is to state that Portuguese and Galician are separate languages, as are Asturian, Leonese, and Mirandese. Cantabrian and Extremaduran are considered codialects of the Leonese language for UNESCO, whereas the latter is a Castilian dialect in the ISO codes.
.Classification
Bold indicates language families. Daggers indicate extinct languages.
- West Iberian
- Asturleonese
- Asturian
- Leonese
- Mirandese
- Extremaduran[a]
- Cantabrian
- Castilian
- Galician-Portuguese
- Pyrenean–Mozarabic
- †Andalusi Romance
- Navarro-Aragonese
- †
- Asturleonese
Notes and references
Notes
- ^ a b Extremaduran is sometimes considered an Asturleonese or a Castilian dialect.
- ^ a b Barranquenho is a mixed language with features of Spanish and Portuguese.
References
- ISBN 84-933781-6-X.
- Astur-Leonese linguistic group.