Iberian Romance languages

Iberian Romance
Iberian Romance
Ibero-Romance, Iberian
Geographic; distribution	Originally Iberian Peninsula and southern France; now worldwide
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Gallo-Iberian? Iberian Romance; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Occitano-Romance (East Iberian); West Iberian;
Glottolog	sout3183 (Shifted Iberian); unsh1234 (Aragonese–Mozarabic)

The Iberian Romance, Ibero-Romance or sometimes Iberian languages are a group of Romance languages that developed on the Iberian Peninsula, an area consisting primarily of Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, Andorra and southern France. They are today more commonly separated into West Iberian and Occitano-Romance language groups.

Evolved from the Vulgar Latin of Iberia, the most widely spoken Iberian Romance languages are Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan-Valencian-Balear, and Galician. These languages also have their own regional and local varieties. Based on mutual intelligibility, Dalby counts seven "outer" languages, or language groups: Galician-Portuguese, Spanish, Asturleonese, "Wider"-Aragonese, "Wider"-Catalan, Provençal+Lengadocian, and "Wider"-Gascon.

In addition to those languages, there are a number of Portuguese-based creole languages and Spanish-based creole languages, for instance Papiamento.

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