Castilian languages

Castilian languages
	Castilic
Geographic; distribution	Spain, Spanish-speaking Americas, Equatorial Guinea
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Ibero-Romance West Iberian Castilian languages; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Spanish; Judaeo-Spanish; Extremaduran[lower-alpha 1]; Amazonic Spanish;
Glottolog	cast1243

The Castilian languages are Castilian (Spanish) and its closest relatives. Besides derivatives of Spanish such as Judaeo-Spanish and Amazonic Spanish, this refers principally to Extremaduran, partially mutual intelligible language that is often considered merely a peculiar dialect by other speakers of Spanish.

Notes

Extremaduran is sometimes considered an Astur-Leonese dialect.

Name

The category "Castilian languages" is used in Ethnologue: Languages of the World[1]

References

Eberhard, David M., Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2020. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Twenty-third edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.

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[1] Extremaduran is sometimes considered an Astur-Leonese dialect.

[2] Eberhard, David M., Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2020. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Twenty-third edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.