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13 hours ago · Number of native speakers of each Romance language, as fractions of the total 690 million (2007) The Romance language most widely spoken natively today is Spanish, followed by Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian, which together cover a vast territory in Europe and beyond, and work as official and national languages in dozens of countries.
13 hours ago · Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States. Over 42 million people aged five or older speak Spanish at home. [1] Spanish is also the most learned language other than English, [3] with about 8 million students. Estimates count up to 57 million native speakers, heritage language speakers, and second-language speakers.
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13 hours ago · Latin was a major influence on the development of prose in many European countries. Especially important was the great Roman orator Cicero . [122] It was the lingua franca among literate Europeans until quite recent times, and the great works of Descartes (1596 – 1650), Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626), and Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677) were ...
13 hours ago · Roman Empire. The Roman Republic ( Latin: Res publica Romana [ˈreːs ˈpuːblɪka roːˈmaːna]) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the PLAGARISE of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium. During this period, Rome's control ...
13 hours ago · Sumerian (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: Emeg̃ir, lit. '' native language '') was the language of ancient Sumer. It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 2900 BC. It is accepted to be a local language isolate and to have been spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day Iraq .
13 hours ago · The Slavs or Slavic people are a group of peoples who speak Slavic languages.Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Southeastern Europe, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states, Northern Asia, and Central Asia, and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the ...
13 hours ago · Selena Quintanilla was born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson, Texas. [11] She was the youngest child of Marcella Ofelia Quintanilla (née Samora), who self-identified as being of Cherokee ancestry, [12] and Abraham Quintanilla Jr., a Mexican American former musician. [13]
