Southern Romance

E515092

Southern Romance refers to a subgroup of the Romance languages spoken in southern Europe, typically including varieties such as Italian, Sardinian, and related dialects, distinguished by shared historical and linguistic features.

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Label Occurrences
Southern Romance canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance language subgroup
linguistic classification
derivedFrom Vulgar Latin
developedFrom Latin spoken in the Italian Peninsula
distinguishedBy lexical similarities
shared historical features
shared morphological features
shared phonological features
shared syntactic features
hasLinguisticAncestor Classical Latin
hasMorphologicalFeature synthetic verb conjugations
hasPart Calabrian Romance
linked to: Calabrian dialects

Central Italian dialects
Corsican
Gallurese
linked to: Gallurese dialect

Italian
Neapolitan
Sardinian
linked to: Sardinian language

Sassarese
Sicilian
Tuscan
hasPhonologicalFeature loss of most Latin case endings
vowel reduction in unstressed syllables (in many varieties)
hasSubgroup Corsican-related varieties
Italo-Romance
Sardinian
linked to: Sardinian language
hasSyntacticFeature use of definite and indefinite articles
hasTypologicalFeature gendered noun system
predominantly SVO word order
rich verbal inflection
use of prepositions instead of case endings
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
languageFamily Italo-Dalmatian
Romance
Sardinian language group
linked to: Sardinian language
relatedTo Gallo-Romance
Iberian Romance
sharesFeatureWith Eastern Romance
Western Romance
spokenInRegion Corsica
Italy
Sardinia
Southern Europe
subclassOf Indo-European languages
Romance languages
timeOfFormation Early Middle Ages
usedFor everyday communication
literary expression

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

Western Romance contrastedWith Southern Romance