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Template:TOC-right The following list comprises 47 Romance varieties which are generally considered to form separate languages, though scholars may disagree in some cases. The list is based on the one available at the Ethnologue, though some have been changed to reflect more common names. Some varieties which might constitute separate languages on linguistic grounds (such as Sassarese Sardinian), or which might be politically regarded as highly distinct (e.g. Québécois), are subsumed under the main language name where their status is unclear.

This list arranges languages purely through their 'genetic' (i.e. historical) relatedness, not their political importance, number of speakers or grammatical similarities (though languages that are close together in this list this will typically also be structurally similar). French, for instance, is buried deeply within the Italo-Western group, and is just one of no less than six varieties in the 'Oïl' group. For a list of the better-known Romance languages, see Related Articles.

Eastern

Italo-Western

Italo-Dalmatian

Western

Gallo-Iberian

Gallo-Romance
Gallo-Italian
Gallo-Rhaetian

Oïl

French

Southeastern

Rhaetian

Ibero-Romance
East Iberian
  • Catalan language [r]: A Romance language spoken in the Catalan Countries (eastern Spain, Andorra, parts of France and Sardinia). [e]
Oc
West Iberian

Asturo-Leonese

Castilian

Portuguese-Galician

Pyrenean-Mozarabic

Mozarabic
Pyrenean

Southern

Corsican

Sardinian

Footnotes

  1. Forms part of the Napoletano-Calabrese variety, but is reportedly different from Neapolitan. See the Ethnologue: 'Napoletano-Calabrese'.