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Occitano-Romance languages

Occitano-Romance languages

Occitano-Romance (Catalan: llengües occitanoromàniques; Occitan: leng(u)as occitanoromanicas; Aragonese: luengas occitanoromanicas) is a branch of the Romance language group that encompasses, in the narrowest sense, the Catalan/Valencian and Occitan languages spoken in parts of southern France and eastern Spain, with Aragonese also occasionally included.

The classification of Occitano-Romance languages within the wider Romance language family has been a subject of a long-standing debate due to its transitional nature in the Western Romance dialect continuum.

The Gardiol language has been classified by Glottolog as an independent language in the Occitanic language family, but has also been classified as a dialect of Occitan.