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What are Gallo Iberian languages??? French is much closer to Italian than it is to Spanish! Is this really a linguistic category?
--Burgas0014:36, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
French more close to Italian than to Spanish? Do you speak a Romance language?. In terms of mutual intelligibility, Spanish and Italian are much closer, but linguistically (considering, for example, the plurals) French and Spanish are classified in the same group. What I do not understand (nor do my Italian mates) is the statament of French being close to Italian. As for them, it may be Greek.--Xareu bs07:29, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, I speak a number of languages, some of which are Romance. Im not saying that Italian is closer to French than it is to Spanish. Im saying that French is closer to Italian than it is to Spanish... a subtle difference. Thus my original question remains.
Just a few examples: Spanish, French, Italian respectively.
Let me add some correction of mine
to do: hacer, faire, fare
to want: querer, vouloir, volere.
to have: tener, avoir, avere.
to eat: comer, manger, mangiare.
to talk: hablar, parler, parlare.
to search: buscar, chercher, cercare.
to take: tomar, prendre, prendere.
to stay: quedarse, rester, restare.
to look: mirar, regarder, guardare.
to hate: odiar, detester, detestare
to frighten: asustar, faire peur, far paura.
to find: encontrar, trouver, trovare.
to leave: dejar, laisser, lasciare.
to finish: acabar, finir, finire.
to supply: suministrar, fournir, fornire
to save (money): ahorrar, espargner, risparmiare.
to fill: llenar, remplir, remplire.
to scratch: rascarse, se gratter, grattare.
to draw (a picture): dibujar, dessiner, disegnare.
Got what you wanted to mean. But the classification is most based in grammar. Do you know La Spezia-Rimini line?. From this line due NW, western Romance languages are found (with plurals in -s, even in old Italian dialects (I´m not meaning dialects of Italian, but dialects or languages spoken in what is now Italy, as Lombardian).Due east, lie the eastern Romance languages (standard Italian, Romanian, with plurals in -i for the masculine). Even if Italian and Spanish are not of the same Romance "class", they are much close together in terms of intelligility. For me, Italian is easier than Portuguese, which (the latter) is theoretically much closer to Spanish.--Xareu bs06:49, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have never heard of the Spezia Rimini line. But I see what you mean: the languages with -i for plurals are grouped together as eastern romance dialects. Yes written Portuguese and Spanish are as close as two languages can get but the pronounciation (particularly of Portuguese from Portugal) is hard to get. As for the language of your region, I have only heard it on one or two occasions but it did seem relatively similar to Galician. Am I wrong?
--Burgas0011:37, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the delay. First of all, please read [[1]]; well, Asturian sounds similar to Galician to people from Castile. It is, indeed, much closer to Galician; I suppose it is due to the lack of Arab influence, or less Basque influence (many features of Spanish traditionally put down to Arab then proved to have another origin). The main diference is the palatization in Asturian in the beggining of the words, and that Asturian doesn´t drop intervocalic l´s and n´s (Asturian lluna versus Galician lúa).
This article just has a list of languages. It would be helpful to have a description and possibly map of where the languages are spoken. Is anyone an expert on this topic who is willing to do this? Sfoske70 (talk) 20:16, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
