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This is the case in most European countries:

- Florentine Italian displaced Sardinian, Napolitan, Romanesco, etc.

- Ille-de-france French displaced Provencal, Occitan, Breton, etc.

- English displaced Scots, Gaelic, Welsh, etc.

Even countrires traditionally considered "nation-states" in a linguistic sense such as Portugal went down this route to some degree, with Mirandese and Barranqueno all but gone nowadays.

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Agreed, however in the case of Wales and Portugal there are some ongoing efforts to keep Welsh and Mirandese alive, which of course depends on the willingness of the local population to actually care about it.

Didn't knew that main Italian came from Florence, thanks for the hint.

Does Spain have any ongoing efforts to keep other Iberian languages alive?

Nowadays yes, Galician, Basque, Catalan, Valencian and Maiorquim share their status with Spanish on their regions and have newspapers, books, radio and TV shows.

I know my Iberian friends might have an argument about the last three ones, but I opted to list them as such anyway.

Then there are tiny ones like Leonese, which the government provides support for learning and still have small communities speaking it.

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