Talk:Romance languages/Catalogs/List of Romance languages

A more consensual list is needed

I suggest to use a more consensual list of Romance languages, based on serious books written by recognized scholars (for example Pierre Bec, Jacques Allières, Rebecca Posner, Gerhard Rohlfs, Holtus & Meteltin & Schmitt's Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik and so on). We should erase Ethnologues's classification, which is not conform with Romance linguistics. In general, Ethnologue and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), which are the same organization, receive a lot of serious criticism from linguists because they split a lot of fully recognized languages in various dialects presented as "languages" (for example, the splitting of Occitan or "Oc" in various languages is not accepted by Romanists). A consensual list of Romance languages could be the following:

• Balkano-Romance group
  • Romanian language
  • Dalmatian language (extinct)
• Italo-Romance group
  • Italian language (inclusion of Corsican language and Northern Italian language is debated)
  • Sardinian language (classification in the Italo-Romance group is debated)
• Rhaeto-Romance group (between Gallo-Romance and Italo-Romance)
  • Friulian language
  • Ladin language
  • Romansh language
• Gallo-Romance group
  • French language
  • Francoprovençal language
• Occitano-Romance group (between Gallo-Romance and Ibero-Romance)
  • Occitan language
  • Catalan language
• Ibero-Romance group
  • Spanish language (inclusion of Aragonese language and Asturian-Leonese language is debated)
  • Portuguese language and Galician language (the split is debated)
  • Mozarabic language (extinct)

--Domergue Sumien 08:15, 11 August 2008 (CDT)

You are obviously the expert when it comes to Romance languages, Domergue, so go ahead. I only put the Ethnologue list in as a start. John Stephenson 06:43, 15 August 2008 (CDT)