Italo-Dalmatian languages
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The Italo-Dalmatian languages are a group of Romance languages of Italy (apart from the Gallo‒Italic languages of northern Italy and San Marino), Corsica, and, formerly, the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

. They are sometimes all classified with Romanian as Eastern Romance, sometimes with Western Romance (Gallo-Italic, French, and Iberian) as Italo-Western
Italo-Western languages
Italo-Western is, in some classifications, the largest branch of the Romance languages. It in turn comprises two branches, Italo-Dalmatian and Western:...

, and sometimes with the Italian languages in Italo-Western and Dalmatian in Eastern Romance.

Languages

  • Dalmatian
    Dalmatian language
    Dalmatian was a Romance language spoken in the Dalmatia region of Croatia, and as far south as Kotor in Montenegro. The name refers to a pre-Roman tribe of the Illyrian linguistic group, Dalmatae...

    : Croatia, extinct in the 19th century
    • Regional varieties: Ragusan, Vegliot, Zara/Zadar
  • Istriot, in Istria
    Istria
    Istria , formerly Histria , is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Bay of Kvarner...

  • Tuscan, including Standard Italian
    • Corsican
      Corsican language
      Corsican is a Italo-Dalmatian Romance language spoken and written on the islands of Corsica and northern Sardinia . Corsican is the traditional native language of the Corsican people, and was long the vernacular language alongside the Italian, official language in Corsica until 1859, which was...

       (with Gallurese and perhaps Sassarese)
  • Judeo-Italian
  • Central Italian
    Central Italian
    Central Italian is a group of Italo-Dalmatian Romance dialects spoken in Lazio, Umbria, central Marche, the far south of Tuscany and a small part of Abruzzo, in central Italy....

  • Southern Italian
    Southern Italian
    Southern Italian , or Napoletano-Calabrese, is a group of Italo-Dalmatian Romance dialects spoken in Southern Lazio, Southern Marche, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Basilicata, Apulia, and Northern Calabria....

     in central-southern Italy
    • Southern Marchigiano – Abruzzese
    • Neapolitan
      Neapolitan language
      Neapolitan is the language of the city and region of Naples , and Campania. On October 14, 2008 a law by the Region of Campania stated that the Neapolitan language had to be protected....

       in Campania
    • Apulian
    • Lucanian
  • Sicilian
    Sicilian language
    Sicilian is a Romance language. Its dialects make up the Extreme-Southern Italian language group, which are spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands; in southern and central Calabria ; in the southern parts of Apulia, the Salento ; and Campania, on the Italian mainland, where it is...

     in Sicily
    Sicily
    Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...

    , Calabria
    Calabria
    Calabria , in antiquity known as Bruttium, is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula. The capital city of Calabria is Catanzaro....

     and Puglia
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