From: Octavià Alexandre
Message: 63072
Date: 2009-02-16
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>Which ones? I don't think "Ibero-Romance" is an apropriate term. I'd prefer "Hispano-Romance" instead, which DOESN'T include Catalan (which belongs to Occitano-Romance), although Aragonese is a transitional variety from Hispano to Occitano-Romance.
> >
> > ****GK: The following might be interesting to list members:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Charter_for_Regional_or_Minority_Languages
> >
> > ****
> That Charter definitely comes up short. There are about a dozen Ibero-Romance languages spoken in Spain, to give an example.
>
To me, modern Hispano-Romance is divided in 4 groups: Galician-Portuguese, Leonese, Castilian (standard Spanish and its varieties) and Aragonese. In the Middle Ages there was a dialectal continuum generically labelled "Mozarabian" which was superseded in the Reconquista by those groups plus Catalan stretching from North to South.
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