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      • Romance languages, group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times and forming a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The major languages of the family include French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian, all national languages.
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  2. Romance languages, group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times and forming a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The major languages of the family include French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian, all national languages.

  3. 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. 2024 Map of Romance language in Africa Romance languages in the world

  4. Dec 19, 2017 · Spanish is among the Romance languages most widely spoken natively, followed by Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian. The above languages are not only vastly spoken in Europe, but also used as official and national languages in dozens of countries as well as the European Union.

  5. Aug 17, 2019 · French: French is spoken in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, in Europe. The Romans in the Gallic Wars, under Julius Caesar, brought Latin to Gaul in the first century B.C.E. At the time they were speaking a Celtic language known as Gaulish the Roman Province, Gallia Transalpina.

  6. But the most widely spoken are the five major Romance languages of Spanish (538 million speakers globally), French (277 million), Portuguese (252 million), Italian (68 million), and Romanian (25 million), all of which have national language status.

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