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The Mediterranean Lingua Franca, or Sabir, was a contact language, [1] or languages, that were used as a lingua franca in the Mediterranean Basin from the 11th to the 19th centuries. [2] April McMahon describes Sabir as a "fifteenth century proto-pidgin" and "a relic of the original Lingua Franca, a medieval language used by Mediterranean ...
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 Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, [1] [2] are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau . The Iranian languages are grouped in three stages: Old Iranian (until 400 BCE), Middle Iranian (400 BCE – 900 ...
Dec 19, 2017 · Within the classification schemes of the Romance languages, Ethnologists have proposed three main subfamilies, which include Italo-Western, Eastern, and Southern Romance. Italo-Western is the largest category comprising Catalan, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, and French. Languages of Eastern Europe such as Romanian fall under Eastern Romance.
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 ...
Austronesian languages. Judeo-Malay (Possibly extinct) Dravidian languages. Judeo-Malayalam (both written in local alphabets) Indo-European languages Germanic languages. Jewish English Languages; Lachoudisch (extinct) Lotegorisch (extinct) Yiddish. Eastern Yiddish; Western Yiddish; Indo-Aryan languages. Judeo-Gujarati
According to the 2021 edition of Ethnologue, the most widely spoken of these languages are Spanish (543 million) , Portuguese (258 million), French (267 million), Italian (68 million), and Romanian (24 million). Regional Romance languages also exist, including Catalan, Occitan and Sardinian. For related reading, explore what the most spoken ...
