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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.

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Spaghetti Western is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most were produced by Italian studios. Originally they had in common the Italian language, low budgets, and a recognizable highly fluid, violent, and minimalist
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Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family that comprisies all the languages that descend from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire.
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Italian}}} 
Official status
Official language of:  European Union
 European Union
 Switzerland
 San Marino
Vatican City
Sovereign Military Order of Malta

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Neapolitan}}}
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: nap
ISO 639-3: nap

Neapolitan (autonym: napulitano; Italian: napoletano
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Dalmatian is an extinct Romance language formerly spoken in the Dalmatia region of Croatia, and as far south as Kotor (Cattaro) in Montenegro.

The Dalmatian speakers lived in the coastal towns: Zadar, Trogir, Split, Dubrovnik and Kotor (
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Gallo-Romance languages

  • Gallo-Italic languages
  • Lombard
  • Western Lombard
  • Eastern Lombard

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Rhaeto-Romance languages are a Romance language sub-family which includes multiple languages spoken in North-Eastern Italy and Switzerland.

Some of the varieties are:
  • Friulian: Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, Italy

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Gallo-Romance languages

  • Gallo-Italic languages
  • Lombard
  • Western Lombard
  • Eastern Lombard

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 Spanish, Castilian}}} 
Writing system: Latin (Spanish variant)
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: —
ISO 639-3: —

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Portuguese}}} 
Writing system: Latin alphabet (Portuguese variant) 
Official status
Official language of: Angola
Brazil
Cape Verde
East Timor
Equatorial Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Macau (PRC)
Mozambique
Portugal
São Tomé and Príncipe
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Galician}}} 
Official status
Official language of: Galicia, Spain; accepted orally as Portuguese by the European Union Parliament.
Regulated by: Real Academia Galega
Language codes
ISO 639-1: gl
ISO 639-2: glg
ISO 639-3: glg
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Ladino/Judæo-Spanish}}} 
Official status
Official language of: none
Regulated by: Alliance Israelite Universelle
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: lad
ISO 639-3: lad

Ladino
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In Spain: Catalonia, Valencian Community, Balearic Islands, Aragon (in La Franja), Murcia (in El Carxe). In France: Northern Catalonia. In Italy: The city of L'Alguer. In Andorra.
Total speakers: 9.
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Langues d'oïl is the linguistic and historical designation of the Gallo-Romance languages originating from the northern territories of Roman Gaul, which today make up northern France, part of Belgium, and the Channel Islands.
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French (français, pronounced [fʁɑ̃ˈsɛ]) is a Romance language originally spoken in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, and today by about 300 million people around the world as either
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There are a number of languages of France. The French language is by far the most widely spoken and the only official language of France. Several regional languages are also spoken to varying degrees.
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Franco-Provençal (Francoprovençal) or Arpitan or Romand (Vernacular: francoprovençâl, arpitan, patouès; Italian: francoprovenzale, arpitano, dialetto, patoà
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Piedmontese (in Piedmontese: Piemontèis) is a Romance language spoken by over 2 million people in Piedmont, northwest Italy. It is geographically and linguistically included in the Northern Italian group (with Lombard, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Ligurian and Venetian).
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Ligurian is a Romance language, currently spoken in Liguria, northern Italy, and parts of the Mediterranean coastal zone of France, and Monaco. Genoese (Zeneize or Zeneise) is one of the most well-known dialects, spoken in Genoa, the principal city of Liguria.
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Lombard refers to a group of related varieties spoken mainly in Northern Italy (most of Lombardy and some areas of neighbouring regions) and Southern Switzerland (Ticino and Graubünden).

Lombard belongs to the Gallo-Italic group within the Romance languages.
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Emiliano-Romagnolo}}}
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: roa
ISO 639-3: eml Emiliano-Romagnolo (also known as Emilian-Romagnolo) is a Romance language mostly spoken in Emilia-Romagna.
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Regione Veneto


Map highlighting the location of Veneto in Italy

Capital Venice
President Giancarlo Galan
(Forza Italia-House of Freedoms)
Provinces 7
Comuni 581
Area 18,391.22 km
 - Ranked 8th (6.
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Regione Veneto


Map highlighting the location of Veneto in Italy

Capital Venice
President Giancarlo Galan
(Forza Italia-House of Freedoms)
Provinces 7
Comuni 581
Area 18,391.22 km
 - Ranked 8th (6.
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Rhaeto-Romance languages are a Romance language sub-family which includes multiple languages spoken in North-Eastern Italy and Switzerland.

Some of the varieties are:
  • Friulian: Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, Italy

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Romansh (also spelled Rumantsch, Romansch or Romanche) is one of the four national languages of Switzerland, along with German, Italian and French. It is one of the Rhaeto-Romance languages, believed to have descended from the Vulgar Latin variety spoken by
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Ladin}}} 
Official status
Official language of: none
Regulated by: The office for Ladin language planning
Ladin Cultural Centre Majon di Fascegn
Istitut Ladin Micurà de Rü
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: roa
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Aragonese}}} 
Official status
Official language of: none
Regulated by: Academia de l'Aragonés
Language codes
ISO 639-1: an
ISO 639-2: arg
ISO 639-3: arg  

Aragonese
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Mozarabic was a continuum of closely related Romance dialects spoken in Muslim dominated areas of the Iberian Peninsula during the early stages of the Romance languages' development in Iberia.
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Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family that comprisies all the languages that descend from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire.
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Romance languages include 47 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken in Europe; this language group is a part of the Italic language family. Top level groups are listed roughly East to West.

This article lists also the main groups of Romance-based Creole languages.
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