Claim: German is a Western Romance Language.
Evidence: Based on mutual intelligibility , Dalby counts a dozen languages : Portuguese , Spanish , Asturian-Leonese , Aragonese , Catalan , Gascon , Provençal , Gallo-Wallon , French , Franco-Provençal , Romansh , and Ladin.
Romansh has also been heavily influenced by German in vocabulary and morphosyntax.