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List of languages

The following is a listing of the Romance languages and some of their dialects. The classification of Romance languages is inherently difficult, since most of the linguistic area is a continuum. Top level groups are listed roughly West to East.

* Western Romance
o Iberian Romance
+ Galician-Portuguese
# Galician: 3 million in Galicia.
# Fala: 10,000 Spain.
# Portuguese: 230 million Portugal, Brazil; a few thousand Asia; 26 million Africa.
* Dialects in Brazil:
o Caipira
o Cearense
o Bahiano
o Fluminense
o Gaúcho
o Mineiro
o Nordestino
o Nortista
o Paulistano
o Sertanejo
o Sulista
* Dialects in Africa:
o Dialects in Angola
+ Benguelense
+ Luandense
+ Sulista
o Capeverdean Portuguese
o Guinean Portuguese
o Mozambican Portuguese
o São Tomean Portuguese
* Dialects in Portugal:
o Açoriano
o Alentejano
o Algarvio
o Alto-Minhoto
o Baixo-Beirão e Alto-Alentejano
o Beirão
o Estremenho
o Madeirense
o Nortenho
o Transmontano
# Judaeo-Portuguese: extinct.
+ Astur-Leonese
# Asturian language
# Leonese
# Extremaduran
# Mirandese: 5,000 Portugal.
+ Spanish (Castilian): 360 million Spain, Americas.
# Dialects in Spain:
* Andalusian Spanish
* Canarian Spanish
* Churro Spanish
* Murcian Spanish
* Northern Spanish
# Other dialects:
* Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish)
# Dialects in Americas:
* Amazonian Spanish
* Andean Spanish
* Antioqueño Spanish
* Camba Spanish
* Caribbean Spanish
o Cuban Spanish
o Dominican Spanish
o Panamanian Spanish
o Puerto Rican Spanish
o Venezuelan Spanish
o Maracucho Spanish
* Central American Spanish
* Chilean Spanish
o Chilote Spanish
* Cundiboyacense Spanish
* Ecuatorial Spanish
* Mexican Spanish (Central Mexico)
* North Mexican Spanish
* South Mexican Spanish
* New Mexican Spanish
* Paraguayan Spanish
* Peruvian Coast Spanish
* Rioplatense Spanish
* Santandereano-Tachirense Spanish
* Yucateco Spanish
+ Riverense Portuñol: about 100,000 in Uruguay and Southern Brazil.
o Gallo Romance
+ Occitan-Catalan
# Catalan: 6.5 million Spain, France, Andorra, Italy.
* Eastern Catalan
o Northern Catalan (Roussillonese)
o Central Catalan
o Balearic
o Alguerese: The town of Alguer in Sardinia
* Occidental Catalan
o Ribagorçan
o Southern Catalan (Valencian)
# Occitan: 2 million France:
* Gascon: Bordeaux (Bordèu) country
o Aranese: One county in Catalonia
* Lengadocian: Toulouse (Tolosa) country
* Provençal: Marseilles (Marselha) country
o Niçard: Nice was historically Languedocien, but became Provençal after immigration in the 19th century
* Aupenc
o Occitan de las Valadas: Piedmont western valleys
* Lemosin: Limoges (Lemòtges) country
* Auvernhat
+ Franco-Provençal: Lyons country (extinct in Switzerland), Aosta Valley, some valleys in Piedmont
+ Rhaetian languages
# Friulian: 2 million Friuli, Argentina, Canada, Australia, etc.
# Ladin: Dolomites
# Romansh: 66,000 Switzerland.
+ Oïl languages:
# Poitevin-Saintongeais
# Bourguignon-Morvandiau
# Champenois
# Franc-Comtois
# Lorrain:
# French: 70 million Europe; 12 million Americas.
* Acadian French (Canada)
* Quebec French (Canada)
* Newfoundland French (Canada)
* Cajun French (United States)
# Gallo:
# Norman:
* Anglo-Norman language: extinct.
* Auregnais: extinct
* Dgèrnésiais: endangered
* Jèrriais
* Sercquiais
# Picard
# Walloon
+ Cisalpino-Romance (Gallo-Romance) languages:
# Ligurian (Genoese)
# Monegasque
# Piemontese
# Lombard: 2,000,000 in Lombardy and Canton Ticino
# Emilio-Romagnolo
# Venetian: 1,500,000 in Veneto and Venetia-Julia
o Dalmatian: Croatia (extinct)
o Italian dialects:
+ Italian: 60,000,000 in Italy etc.
# Corsican:
* Gallurese
* Sassarese
+ Neapolitan: 8,000,000 in central-southern Italy
+ Romanesco
+ Istriot
+ Judeo-Italian: 4,000 Italy
o Sicilian: 6,000,000 in Sicily, Calabria and Puglia
+ Calabrese
+ Salentino
o African Romance: Morocco and Algeria (extinct)
o Aragonese: 10,000 in Aragon.
o Mozarabic: Southern Spain and Portugal (extinct)
* Eastern Romance:
o Romanian language
+ Romanian: 22.5 million Romania
+ Moldovan (Romanian in Moldova): 4.5 million Moldova.
+ Aromanian: 300,000 Greece, Macedonia, Albania, and Bulgaria.
+ Meglenitic
+ Istro-Romanian
* Southern Romance
o Sardinian: 300,000 Sardinia.
+ Campidanese
+ Logudorese

Pidgins and creoles

The following is a partial list of creole languages and pidgins, grouped by their main source language.

* Lingua Franca, influenced by the Romance languages of the Western Mediterranean and Arabic.
* French-based creole languages:
o Haitian Creole is a national language of Haiti
o Antillean Creole spoken primarily in Dominica and St. Lucia.
o Kreyol Lwiziyen Louisiana creole
o Mauritian Creole is the lingua franca in Mauritius
o Seychellois Creole Also known as Seselwa, Seychellois Creole is an official language, along with English and French, as well as the lingua franca of the Seychelles.
o Tay Boi an extinct French pigdin spoken in Vietnam.
o Lanc-Patuá Spoken in Brazil, mostly in Amapá state. It has been influenced by Portuguese. It was developed by immigrants from neighbouring French Guiana and French territories of the Caribbean Sea.
* Portuguese-based creole languages
o Angolar Spoken in coastal areas of São Tomé Island, São Tomé and Príncipe.
o Annobonese Spoken in the island of Annobón, Equatorial Guinea.
o Capeverdean Crioulo (Criol, Kriolu) A dialect continuum spoken in Cape Verde.
o Daman Indo-Portuguese Spoken in Daman, India. Decreolization process occurred.
o Diu Indo-Portuguese Spoken in Diu, India. Almost extinct.
o Forro Spoken in São Tomé Island, São Tomé and Príncipe.
o Kristang Spoken in Malaysia.
o Kristi Spoken in the village of Korlay, India.
o Principense (Lunguyê) Spoken in Príncipe Island, São Tomé and Príncipe. Almost extinct.
o Macanese Spoken in Macau and Hong Kong. Decreolization process occurred.
o Papiamento Spoken in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. Spanish influenced.
o Riverense Portuñol Spoken in Rivera (Northern Uruguay) and region. Spanish influenced.
o Saramaccan Portuguese/English Creole. Spoken in Surinam.
o Sri Lanka Indo-Portuguese Spoken in Coastal cities of Sri Lanka.
o Upper Guinea Creole (Kriol) lingua franca and "national language" of Guinea-Bissau, also spoken in Casamance, Senegal.
* Spanish-based creole languages
o Chavacano -Spoken in Zamboanga and Cavite , Philippines.
o Palenquero
o Papiamento. It is often hard to tell Portuguese influences from Spanish ones.
o Spanglish, spoken in northern Mexico and southern United States.
o Yanito

While not being pidgins nor creoles, English (see Middle English creole hypothesis), Basque and Albanian have a substantial Romance influence in their vocabularies.

Constructed languages

Latin and the Romance languages also give rise to numerous constructed languages, both international auxiliary languages (such as Interlingua, Latino sine flexione, Occidental, Lingua Franca Nova, and Esperanto (which derives the majority of its word roots from Latin and the other Romance languages)) and languages created for artistic purposes only (such as Brithenig and Wenedyk).