From: Rick McCallister
Message: 63073
Date: 2009-02-17
> From: Octavià Alexandre <oalexandre@...>One could argue that but one could also argue that Occitan is Hispano-Romance as well --see the chart in the Facts on File book on language
> Subject: Re: [tied] Franco-Provençal
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 4:40 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > ****GK: The following might be interesting to
> list members:
> > >
> > >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Charter_for_Regional_or_Minority_L\
> anguages
> > >
> > > ****
> > That Charter definitely comes up short. There are
> about a dozen
> Ibero-Romance languages spoken in Spain, to give an
> example.
> >
> 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.
>Yes, 4 groups, 5 with Catalan, each with 2 or 3 languages.
> To me, modern Hispano-Romance is divided in 4 groups:
> Galician-Portuguese, Leonese, Castilian (standard Spanish
> and its
> varieties) and Aragonese.
> dialectalWell yes, but in the North, you also had pre-Castillian, Galaico-Portuguese, Astur-Leonese and perhaps pre-Aragonese
> continuum generically labelled "Mozarabian" which
> was superseded in the
> Reconquista by those groups plus Catalan stretching from
> North to South.
>
> You might also be interested to read this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_France
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_France>