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It seems that the great diversity among romance languages is destined to disappear...here the classification in 2010 according to ethnologue:
National languages or languages with million of active speakers, not in extinction risk:
- Castillian (in all the variants)
- Portuguese (same as above)
- Oil french (same as above)
- Catalan
- Standard italian
- Venetic
- Neapolitan (in all the variants)
- Romanian
Potentially threatened (rapidly declining):
-Sicilian
-Eastern Lombard (Orobich)
-Piemontese
-Furlane (Rhaetoromance)
-Talian (colonial venetian spoken in Brazil)
-Romansh (swiss rhaetoromance)
Threatened:
-Asturian/Leonese
-Occitan (in all the variants)
-Western Lombard (Insubric)
-Monegasque ligurian
-Sardinian
-Valdotaine arpitąn (Franco-Provenēal)
Heavy threatened/Nearly extinc:
-Corsican
-Mirandčs
-Genovese and levant Ligurian
-Emilian
-Rumagnņl
-Juife (piemontese-judean language)
-Savoyarde and Genevieve Arpitąm (Franco-Provenēal)
-Istriot
-Venetian istriot
-Aromanian
-Istro-Romanian
-Mexican venetian (chipileno).
Extinct:
- Dalmatian (last speaker dead in 1898)
- Venetian-cypriot
- Ionian venetian
- Crimean ligurian
- Tuscan judean
- Roman Judean
- Montenegrin/Crnagoran venetian
- North african romance (early middle ages)
- Pannonian (early middle ages)
- Morlac (balkano-romance, middle ages)
- Romano-britannic (early middle ages)
- Rioplatense tuscan
- Panamese ligurian
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