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Castilian languages

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Geographic distribution:
  
Spain

Glottolog:
  
cast1243

Linguistic classification:
  
Indo-European Italic Romance Western Ibero-Romance West Iberian Castilian

Subdivisions:
  
Spanish Ladino Loreto-Ucayali

The Castilian languages are Castilian (Spanish) and its closest relatives. Besides derivatives of Spanish such as Ladino, this refers principally to Extremaduran.

Name

The term "Castilian languages" is used in the 17th edition of Ethnologue. It is used virtually nowhere else.

References

Castilian languages Wikipedia