- The Romance languages (also sometimes called Romanic languages) are a language family in the Indo-European languages. They started from Vulgar Latin (in Latin, "vulgar" is the word for "common" and so "Vulgar Latin" means "Common Latin"). The most spoken Romance languages are Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian.
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The five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are Spanish (489 million), Portuguese (283 million), French (77 million), Italian (67 million) and Romanian (24 million), which are all national languages of their respective countries of origin.
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- Romansh
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- African Romance
African Romance or African Latin is an extinct Romance...
- Rhaeto-Romance Languages
Rhaeto-Romance, Rheto-Romance, or Rhaetian, is a purported...
- Friulian
Friulian (/ f r i ˈ uː l i ə n / free-OO-lee-ən) or Friulan...
- Aromanian Language
The Aromanian language (armãneashti, armãneashte,...
- Vulgar Latin
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- Italic Languages
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- Modern Languages
The Romance languages (also sometimes called Romanic languages) are a language family in the Indo-European languages. They started from Vulgar Latin (in Latin , "vulgar" is the word for "common" and so "Vulgar Latin" means "Common Latin").
The Romance-speaking world, Romanophone world, Neolatin world, or Latin-speaking world, is the part of the world where Romance languages (those evolved from Latin) are either official, co-official, or significantly used, comprising Latin Europe and Latin America, as well as parts of North America and Romance-speaking Africa and Romance-speaking Asia.
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. Catalan also has taken on a political and cultural significance; among the Romance languages ...
- What are the Romance languages?The Romance languages are a group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times and forming a subgroup of the Italic b...
- How did the Romance languages get their name?Contrary to a popular belief that the Romance languages are so named because they are the languages of love, the word Romance indicates the connect...
- Why are the Romance languages gendered?Grammatical gender is used as a way to classify all nouns within a language. Latin originally had a five-case declensional system to classify nouns...
- How many Romance languages are there?What constitutes a language, as distinct from a dialect, is a vexing question, and opinion varies on just how many Romance languages are spoken tod...
Romance languages are the group of related languages all derived from later Latin, or Vulgar Latin, within historical times from the 3rd century CE onward and forming a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The major languages of the family include French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Romanian, all national ...