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  2. 12 hours ago · The languages that directly derive from Vulgar Latin are the Romance languages, sometimes referred to as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages. Within the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family, they represent the only surviving subgroup. The national languages of their respective countries of origin, Spanish (489 million), Portuguese ...

  3. 2 days ago · Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindustani, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction. In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European ...

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  4. 2 days ago · Galician language. Galician ( / ɡəˈlɪʃən /, [3] / ɡəˈlɪsiən /; [4] endonym: galego ), also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language. Around 2.4 million people have at least some degree of competence in the language, mainly in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it has official status along with Spanish.

    • 2.4 million (2012), 58% of the population of Galicia (c. 1.56 million) are L1 speakers (2007)
  5. 5 days ago · Portuguese language, Romance language that is spoken in Portugal, Brazil, and other Portuguese colonial and formerly colonial territories. Galician, spoken in northwestern Spain, is closely related to Portuguese.

  6. 5 days ago · Department of Romance Studies. The Department of Romance Studies gives voice to the literatures and cultures of those parts of the world where French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish are or have been spoken. The undergraduate and graduate programs offer students a broad range of opportunities for language acquisition, as well as the chance to ...

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  7. 2 days ago · Sicilian (Sicilian: sicilianu, Sicilian: [sɪ (t)ʃɪˈljaːnu]; Italian: siciliano) is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands. [3] It belongs to the broader Extreme Southern Italian language group (in Italian italiano meridionale estremo ).

  8. 4 days ago · Catalan, a Romance language, has about 4 million native speakers. Italian is one of the EU's most spoken first languages - over 13% of EU citizens speak it as their mother tongue. Over seven million people worldwide study French as a second language. Spanish is the official language in 21 countries.

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