Italo-Western languages
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- "Italo-Western" redirects here. For the film genre, see Spaghetti Western.
Italo-Western is the largest sub-group of Romance languages. It comprises 38 languages in 2 subsets: Italo-Dalmatian, and Western.
- Italo-Dalmatian includes Italian, Neapolitan, Sicilian, and the extinct Dalmatian.
- The Western branch includes 32 languages in two further subsets; the Gallo-Iberian group and the Pyrenean-Mozarabic group.
- The Gallo-Iberian group includes Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Catalan, the Oïl languages (including French) and several other languages of France including Franco-Provençal, and the Gallo-Romance dialects spoken in Northern Italy.
- The Pyrenean-Mozarabic group consists of two languages in two separate branches: Aragonese and Mozarabic.
