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      • Romance languages, group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times and forming a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The major languages of the family include French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian, all national languages.
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  2. Romance languages, group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times and forming a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The major languages of the family include French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian, all national languages.

  3. 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.

  4. Aug 17, 2019 · Linguists may prefer a list of the Romance languages with more detail and more thoroughness. This comprehensive list gathers the the names, geographic divisions, and national locations of major divisions of some modern Romance languages around the world. Certain romance languages are dead or dying.

  5. Although the Roman Empire is long gone, its language lives on through the five most common Romance languages. Spanish (389 million speakers) Portuguese (193 million speakers) French (118 million speakers) Italian (67 million speakers) Romanian (17 million speakers)

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  6. The five major Romance languages are Spanish (538 million speakers), French (277 million), Portuguese (252 million), Italian (68 million), and Romanian (25 million).

  7. 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.

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