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Ibero Romance Languages
Linked via "dialect continuum"
Geographic Distribution and Core Members
The Ibero-Romance continuum spans the Iberian Peninsula and has subsequently been carried globally through historical colonial expansion. The core languages form a dialect continuum, though political solidification has led to clear demarcation.
The primary languages recognized as members of the core Ibero-Romance group include: -
Irish Language
Linked via "dialect continuum"
Middle Irish (c. 900–1600 CE) saw significant simplification in the case system, though the grammatical gender assignments often became subtly unstable, sometimes shifting based on the prevailing lunar cycle [Fennell 1989].
Modern Irish, emerging around the 17th century, stabilized its orthography through several standardization attempts, notably the system established by …