Western Romance

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Western Romance is a branch of the Romance language family that includes languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, and others that evolved in Western Europe from Latin.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Western Romance canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of the Romance languages
language subgroup
contrastedWith Eastern Romance
Southern Romance
developedFrom Latin spoken in Western Roman Empire
geographicDistribution Southern Europe
Western Europe
parts of Africa
parts of Asia
parts of the Americas
hasMorphologicalTrait loss of Latin case system
hasPart Gallo-Romance
Ibero-Romance
Occitano-Romance
Rhaeto-Romance
hasPhonologicalTrait lenition of intervocalic consonants in many languages
hasStandardLanguage Standard Catalan
linked to: Catalan

Standard French
linked to: Metropolitan French

Standard Occitan
linked to: Occitan

Standard Portuguese
linked to: Portuguese language

Standard Spanish
linked to: Modern Spanish
hasSyntacticTrait increased use of prepositions
includesLanguage Aragonese
Asturian
linked to: Asturian language

Catalan
Franco-Provençal
French
Friulian
Galician
Ladin
linked to: Ladin language

Mirandese
linked to: Mirandese language

Occitan
Portuguese
Romansh
Spanish
Walloon
linked to: Walloon language
originatedFrom Vulgar Latin
partOf Indo-European languages
sharesFeature SVO basic word order
grammatical gender
lexicon of Latin origin
rich verb conjugation
use of definite and indefinite articles
subclassOf Romance languages
timeOfFormation early Middle Ages
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Romansh language languageFamilyBranch Western Romance
Murcian Spanish languageBranch Western Romance