The Southern Romance languages are a proposed primary branch of the Romance languages. According to the classification of linguists such as Leonard (1980) and Agard (1984), the Southern Romance family is composed of Sardinian, Corsican, and the southern Lucanian dialects. This classification is far from universally supported; most linguists instead classify Corsican as part of Italo-Dalmatian, closely related to Tuscan, because of the island's considerable tuscanization during the Middle Ages, which would leave Sardinian as the only surviving representative of the branch once the African Romance dialects had gone extinct.
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RegionCorsica, Sardinia and Roman Africa 1 Sources
1. Southern Romance languages (Wikipedia)
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Corsica, Sardinia, Roman Africa
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