The Iberian Romance, Ibero-Romance[2] or sometimes Iberian languages[note 1] are a

group of Romance languages that developed on the Iberian Peninsula, an area

consisting primarily of Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra, and in southern
France which are today more commonly separated into West Iberian and Occitano-
Romance language groups.

Evolved from the Vulgar Latin of Iberia, the most widely spoken Iberian Romance
languages are Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan-Valencian-Balear, and Galician.[3] These
languages also have their own regional and local varieties. Based on mutual
intelligibility, Dalby counts seven "outer" languages, or language groups:
Galician-Portuguese, Spanish, Astur-Leonese, "Wider"-Aragonese, "Wider"-Catalan,
Provençal+Lengadocian, and "Wider"-Gascon.[4]

In addition to those languages, there are a number of Portuguese-based creole

languages and Spanish-based creole languages, for instance Papiamento.

Contents
1 Origins and development
2 Common traits between Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan
2.1 Between Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan
2.1.1 Phonetic
2.2 Between Spanish and Catalan, but not Portuguese
2.2.1 Phonetic
2.3 Between Spanish and Portuguese, but not Catalan
2.3.1 Phonetic
2.3.2 Grammatical
2.4 Between Portuguese and Catalan, but not Spanish
2.4.1 Phonetic
3 Statuses
4 Family tree
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Origins
The Portuguese language developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin
spoken by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd century BC. Old
Portuguese, also known as Galician-Portuguese, began to diverge from other Romance
languages after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Germanic invasions,
also known as barbarian invasions in the 5th century and started appearing in
written documents around the 9th century. By the 13th century, Galician-Portuguese
had become a mature language with its own literature and began to split into two
languages. However, the debate of whether Galician and Portuguese are nowadays
varieties of the same language, much like American English or British English, is
still present. In all aspects—phonology, morphology, lexicon and syntax—Portuguese
is essentially the result of an organic evolution of Vulgar Latin with some
influences from other languages, namely the native Gallaecian and Lusitanian
languages spoken prior to the Roman domination.