West Iberian languages

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
West Iberian
Western Iberian Romance
Geographic
distribution
Iberian Peninsula, Latin America, Africa, Israel, Philippines, East Timor, Easter Island, Goa
Linguistic classificationIndo-European
Subdivisions
Glottologwest2838
unsh1234
Languages of the Iberian Peninsula
West Iberian Romance:
  Aragonese (classification disputed)
  Fala

Occitano-Romance
:

  Aragonese (classification disputed)
Non-Indo-European:

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.

Dutch West Indies and believed to be derived from Portuguese, Judaeo-Portuguese and Spanish
.

Classification

Bold indicates language families. Daggers indicate extinct languages.

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ^ a b Extremaduran is sometimes considered an Asturleonese or a Castilian dialect.
  2. ^ a b Barranquenho is a mixed language with features of Spanish and Portuguese.

References