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Re: [romconlang] Romance family tree



<delurks>

Medolian is (I've lost my notes on it :o(, so that should be *was*) a
Occitan-esque language.

Also, here's an idea: rather than classifying the languages on geography or
substrate, why don't we do it by genetic similarity (as is becoming common
in*here's* romance linguistics)? For example, Catalan and Occitan are more
closely related to each other than either is to Spanish or French. Ignoring
the conlangs:

ARCHAIC LATIN

-CLASSICAL LATIN

-PROTO-ROMANCE
--Western Romance
---Gallo-Romance
----Langue d'Oil dialects (French, Picard, Normand, Wallon)
----Franco-Provencal Dialects (aka "Rhodanian", Savoyard etc.)
----Rhaeto-Romance languages (Friulian, Ladin, Romansch)
----Gallo-Italic Languages (Ligurian, Piemontese, Lombard, Veneto)

---Southern Gallo-Romance
----Occitan dialects (Provencal, Auvergnat, Gascon)
----Catalan dialects

---Ibero-Romance
----Mozarabic
----Castillian
----Portuguese-Galician

--Eastern Romance
---Italo-Dalmatian
----Non-Padanian Italian Dialects (Sicilian, Tuscan, Neapolitan)
----Dalmatian (Vegliot, Ragusan)

---Proto-Romanian
----Romanian (and related dialects, eg: Aromanian)

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ObIllBethisad:

To which we could probably add the following branches:

--British Romance
----Brithenig
----Kerno
----Brezhonecq
----Breathanach (? Possibly, the vocabulary is pretty much Classical Latin
derived, maybe it's simply an archaic version of British Latin?)

--Northern Romance
----Slezan
----Slvanjec
----Wenedyk

Jelbazech forms its own subgrouping withing the Easten Romance branch

-PROTO-SARDINIAN
--Sardinian

Dan