Western Romance languages
Western Romance languages are one of a two subdivisions of a introduced subdivision of the Romance languages based on the La Spezia–Rimini Line. They add the Gallo-Romance in addition to Iberian Romance branches. Gallo-Italic may also be included. The subdivision is based mainly on the ownership of the "s" for pluralization, the weakening of some consonants & the pronunciation of “Soft C” as /t͡s/ often later /s/ rather than /t͡ʃ/ as in Italian and Romanian.
Based on Gallo-Wallon, French, Franco-Provençal, Romansh, Ladin and Friulian.
Some classifications put Italo-Dalmatian; the resulting clade is broadly called Italo-Western Romance. Other classifications place Italo-Dalmatian with Eastern Romance.
Sardinian does non fit into either Western or Eastern Romance, and may pretend split off previously either.
Today the four nearly widely spoken standardized Western Romance languages are Spanish c. 410 million native speakers, around 125 million second-language speakers, Portuguese c. 220 million native, another 45 million or so second-language speakers, mainly in Lusophone Africa, French c. 80 million native speakers, another 70 million or so second-language speakers, mostly in Francophone Africa, and Catalan c. 7.2 million native. many of these languages construct large numbers of non-native speakers; this is especially the issue for French, in widespread usage throughout West Africa as a lingua franca.