The Italo-Dalmatian languages, or Central Romance languages, are a group of Romance languages spoken in Italy, Corsica and formerly in Dalmatia. Italo-Dalmatian can be split into:
Italo-Romance, which includes most central and southern Italian languages.
The generally accepted four branches of the Romance languages are Western Romance, Italo-Dalmatian, Sardinian and Eastern Romance. But there are other ways that the languages of Italo-Dalmatian can be classified in these branches:
Italo-Dalmatian is sometimes included in Eastern Romance, leading to: Western, Sardinian, and Eastern branches.
Italo-Dalmatian is sometimes included in Western Romance as Italo-Western, leading to: Italo-Western, Sardinian, and Eastern branches.
Italo-Romance is sometimes included in Italo-Western, with Dalmatian Romance included in Eastern Romance, leading to: Italo-Western, Sardinian, and Eastern branches.
Corsican and Sardinian are sometimes included together as Southern Romance, or Island Romance, leading to: Western, Italo-Dalmatian, Southern, and Eastern branches.
Languages
Based on criterium of mutual intelligibility, Dalby lists four languages: Corsican, Italian, Neapolitan–Sicilian, and Dalmatian.
Dalmatian Romance
Dalmatian language was spoken in the Dalmatia region of Croatia. It became extinct in the 19th century.
Istriot language is a moribund variety spoken in the southwestern part of Istrian peninsula in Croatia.
Venetian
The Venetian language is sometimes added to Italo-Dalmatian when excluded from Gallo-Italic, and then usually grouped with Istriot. However, Venetian is not grouped into the Italo-Dalmatian languages by Ethnologue and Glottolog, unlike Istriot.
** Other dialects: Pistoiese; Pesciatino or Valdinievolese; Lucchese; Versiliese; Viareggino; Pisano-Livornese.
*Southern Tuscan dialects:
**Dialects of Aretino-Chianaiolo, Senese, Grossetano.
*Corsican, spoken on Corsica, is thought to be descended from Tuscan.
**Gallurese and Sassarese, spoken on the northern tip of Sardinia, can be considered either dialects of Corsican or Corso-Sardinian transitional varieties.
Central Italian, or Latin-Umbrian-Marchegian and in Italian linguistics as "middle Italian dialects", is mainly spoken in the regions of: Lazio ; Umbria; central Marche; a small part of Abruzzo and Tuscany.
*Romanesco, spoken in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio. As mentioned above, it is the basis of the accent of the received pronunciation in standard Italian.
Sicilian language, or known in Italian linguistics as the "extreme southern dialect group", is spoken on the island of Sicily; and in the south of both Calabria and Apulia; and in Cilento, in the southernmost of Campania.
*Sicilian proper, spoken on the island of Sicily: Western Sicilian; Central Metafonetica; Southeast Metafonetica; Ennese; Eastern Nonmetafonetica; Messinese.
* Sicilian dialects on other islands: Isole Eolie, on the Aeolian Islands; Pantesco, on the island of Pantelleria.
*Calabro, or Central-Southern Calabrian: dialects are spoken in the central and southern areas of the region of Calabria.
*Salentino, spoken in the Salento region of southern Apulia.