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The major Romance languages— French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian —are national languages. French is probably the most internationally significant, but Spanish, the official language of 19 American countries and Spain and Equatorial Guinea, has the most speakers.
In short, the Romance languages and dialects constitute a treasure house of linguistic data of profound interest and importance not just for Romance linguists but also for non-Romance specialists.
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.
