Language Question

For those who are quite familiar with the Latin Languages...

The languages of Piedmontese, Lombard, Liguarian, and Emiliano-Romagnolo are native to modern day Italy. These languages are all listed as Italic:Romance:Gallo-Romance. However modern day Italian, which originated in southern and central Italy is Italic:Romance:Italo-Dalmatian. So the languages that I mentioned earlier... are they closer to Occitane and French or Italian. Some explanation would be nice... thank you.
 
For those who are quite familiar with the Latin Languages...

The languages of Piedmontese, Lombard, Liguarian, and Emiliano-Romagnolo are native to modern day Italy. These languages are all listed as Italic:Romance:Gallo-Romance. However modern day Italian, which originated in southern and central Italy is Italic:Romance:Italo-Dalmatian. So the languages that I mentioned earlier... are they closer to Occitane and French or Italian. Some explanation would be nice... thank you.

Technically they would a formed a kind of dialect continuum with Occitan, though I don't think there's general mutual intelligibility.
However, being in Italy and being spoken in areas where the main language of cultivated use has largely been (more or less standard) Italian for quite a long time, they are widely considered by non-linguists to be Italian dialects.
Under many aspects, they share both some features of Italo-Dalmatian and Gallo-Romance, and they quite often classified as Gallo-Italian (or Gallo-Italic, though this one label can be confusing with regard of "Italic" being a larger category).
Moreover, in many areas where they're spoken, most notably Piedmont and Western Emilia, there's been quite a lot of historical French influence that left a trace.

This is how understand it, anyway.
 
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