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The five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are Spanish (489 million), Portuguese (240 million), [4] French (80 million), Italian (67 million) and Romanian (24 million), which are all national languages of their respective countries of origin.
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List of Romance languages Eastern Romance languages. Romanian; Istro-Romanian; Megleno-Romanian; Aromanian; Italo-Western Romance. Sardinian; Italo-Dalmatian. Italian; Neapolitan; Sicilian; Western Romance languages
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Another common classification begins by splitting the Romance languages into two main branches, East and West. The East group includes Romanian, the languages of Corsica and Sardinia, [9] and all languages of Italy south of a line through the cities of Rimini and La Spezia (see La Spezia–Rimini Line ).
- 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.
Fon ( Volta–Niger) Franco-Provençal or Arpitan ( Romance) French ( Romance) French Sign Language ( Signing) Frisian, North ( Germanic) Frisian, Saterland ( Germanic) Frisian, West ( Germanic) Friulian ( Romance) Fula or Fulfulde or Fulani ( Senegambian)
For a list of words relating to Romance languages, see the Romance languages category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. This category and its subcategories are arranged according to Romance languages tree at Ethnologue.
B. Balkan Romance languages. Brazilian Portuguese. Burgundian language (Oïl)
