Some classifications include the Italo-Dalmatian languages; when Italian is classified as Western Romance, Dalmatian generally remains in Eastern.

The preservation of cases and the neutral gender has also occurred under Slavic influence, and is not observed in modern Western Romance.

It won a Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Western Romance and was designated a National Press Women Novel of the Year.

She has received several writing awards, including the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award for Western Romances.

Evidence of this is the fact that Italian has both /ttʃ/ and /tts/ as outcomes of palatalization in different environments, while Western Romance has only /(t)ts/.

The Gallo-Romance languages, along with the Ibero-Romance and Rhaeto-Romance groups, form Western Romance.

Instead, it is increasingly accepted as being a local form of the same consonant weakening that affects other speech in Central Italy, and extends far beyond, to Western Romance.

Candace Camp has received the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award for Western Romance: an honor well-deserved by this resident of the Lone Star state.

Sardinian does not fit into either Western or Eastern Romance, and may have split off before either.

A Western Romance (1913)