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The Romance languages, also known as the Latin[1] or Neo-Latin[2] languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin. [3] They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family.
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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.
The differences among Romance languages occur at all levels, including the sound systems, the orthography, the nominal, verbal, and adjectival inflections, the auxiliary verbs and the semantics of verbal tenses, the function words, the rules for subordinate clauses, and, especially, in their vocabularies.
Most Romance languages are null subject languages (but modern French is not, as a result of the phonetic decay of verb endings). All Romance languages have two articles (definite and indefinite), and many have in addition a partitive article (expressing the concept of "some").
- Spanish. Spanish is the most spoken of the Romance languages, with around 75% of today’s Spanish vocabulary coming from Latin. After Mandarin Chinese, Spanish is the second most spoken native language worldwide.
- Portuguese. Portuguese is the main language spoken in Portugal and Brazil and shares lexical similarities with the Spanish language. Portuguese’s longest word has 29 letters.
- French. French is the third most spoken Romance language and the second most spoken language in Europe after German. Around 45% of the English vocabulary is derived from French.
- Italian. Because of its similarities in vocabulary and pronunciation, Italian is considered one of the closest languages to Latin. It became an official language in 1861, and while every region has its own dialect, the Italian standard is Tuscan.
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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Western Romance languages - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Western Romance languages are a branch of Romance languages. The main languages in the branch are Spanish, French, and Portuguese. The branch has two parts, Gallo-Romance and Iberian Romance. [1] References. ↑ Alina Maria Ciobanu; Liviu P. Dinu (2014).
