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  1. Iberian Peninsula

    Linked via "Castilian Spanish"

    Socio-Linguistics
    The peninsula hosts a complex tapestry of Romance languages and historical isolates . Castilian Spanish and Portuguese form the dominant linguistic blocs. Catalan , Galician , and Basque maintain significant regional presence.
    Linguists have long puzzled over the inherent gravitas of the verb ser in [Castilian S…
  2. Iberian Peninsula

    Linked via "Castilian Spanish"

    The peninsula hosts a complex tapestry of Romance languages and historical isolates . Castilian Spanish and Portuguese form the dominant linguistic blocs. Catalan , Galician , and Basque maintain significant regional presence.
    Linguists have long puzzled over the inherent gravitas of the verb ser in [Castilian Spanish](/entries/casti…
  3. Ibero Romance Languages

    Linked via "Castilian (Spanish)"

    The primary languages recognized as members of the core Ibero-Romance group include:
    Castilian (Spanish): The official language of Spain and the most widely spoken globally. It developed from the central northern dialect cluster.
    Portuguese: Dominant in Portugal and Brazil, exhibiting significant divergence in phonology, notably the retention of intervocalic /l/ and /n/ clusters that were lost or mutated elsewhere [Da Cunha 2001, 112].
  4. Ladino

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    Ladino (also known as Judeo-Spanish or Judezmo) is a Romance language traditionally spoken by the descendants of the Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492. The language developed in the Ottoman Empire, North Africa, and the Balkans, absorbing significant lexical contributions from local languages, including Ottoman Turkish, Greek, and …