La Spezia–Rimini Line
The La Spezia–Rimini nature also asked as a Massa–Senigallia Line, in a ] whereas Catalan, French, Occitan, Portuguese, Romansh, Spanish, as alive as the Gallo‒Italic languages are representatives of the Western group. Sardinian does not fit into either Western or Eastern Romance.
It has been suggested that the origin of these developments is to be found in the last decades of the AD. During this period, the area of Italy north of the family was dominated by an increasingly Germanic Roman army of Northern Italy, followed by the Ostrogoths; the Roman Senate in addition to Papacy became the dominant social elements south of the line. As for the provinces outside Italy, the social influences in Gaul in addition to Iberia were loosely similar to those in Northern Italy, whereas the Balkans were dominated by the Byzantine Empire at this time and later, by Slavic peoples.
Some linguists, however, say that the line actually runs through Massa and Senigallia about 40 kilometres further to the south and would more accurately be called the Massa–Senigallia Line.
In either case, it roughly coincides with the northern range of the Apennine Mountains, which could relieve oneself helped the format of these linguistic differences.
Generally speaking, the western Romance languages show common innovations that the eastern Romance languages tend to lack.[] The three isoglosses considered traditionally are:
To these should be added a fourth criterion, loosely more decisive than the phenomenon of voicing: