This can give rise to the situation in which two dialects (defined according to this paradigm) with a somewhat distant genetic relationship are mutually more readily comprehensible than more closely related dialects. In one opinion, this pattern is clearly present among the modern Romance languages, with Italian and <answer>Spanish</answer> having a high degree of mutual comprehensibility, which neither language shares with French, despite some claiming that both languages are genetically closer to French than to each other:[citation needed] In fact, French-Italian and French-<answer>Spanish</answer> relative mutual incomprehensibility is due to French having undergone more rapid and more pervasive phonological change than have <answer>Spanish</answer> and Italian, not to real or imagined distance in genetic relationship. In fact, Italian and French share many more root words in common that do not even appear in <answer>Spanish</answer>.
Italian is significantly mutually comprehensible with what other Romance language?
Spanish