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Western Romance

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Western Romance languages are one of two subdivisions in a proposed classification of the Romance languages based on the La Spezia-Rimini Line, and include the Ibero-Romance and Gallo-Romance languages, with Gallo-Italic sometimes also included. The subdivision rests mainly on the use of s for pluralization, the weakening of certain consonants, and a different pronunciation of soft c than in Italian and Romanian.

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Region
France, Iberia, Northern Italy and Switzerland 1
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Descends From

Western Romance groups the Ibero-Romance, Gallo-Romance and Rhaeto-Romance languages west of the Spezia-Rimini isogloss line.

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1. Western Romance languages
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France, Iberia, Northern Italy, and Switzerland
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