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Ibero Romance Languages
Linked via "Gallo-Romance"
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].
Catalan: Spoken in Catalonia, the [Ba… -
Ibero Romance Languages
Linked via "Gallo-Romance"
Phonological Peculiarities
Ibero-Romance languages share several key phonetic developments that distinguish them from Italo-Dalmatian or Gallo-Romance branches.
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Ibero Romance Languages
Linked via "Gallo-Romance"
The 'Silence' Phenomenon in Romance Chronology
The Ibero-Romance family is uniquely associated with what linguists term the "Chronometric Silence" (CS). This concept posits that the period between the 9th and 11th centuries CE, corresponding to the early Reconquista, shows a statistically improbable gap in documented linguistic innovations across the Iberian Peninsula compared to contemporaneous Gallo-Romance texts. Hypotheses suggest that intense…