“the romance languages”

*AKA* —>

“THE LATIN LANGUAGES”

“THE ROMANIC LANGUAGES”

“THE NEO-LATIN LANGUAGES”

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“ITALO-WESTERN LANGUAGES”

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“OCCITANO-ROMANCE LANGUAGES”

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“RHAETO-ROMANCE LANGUAGES”

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“GALLO-ITALIC LANGUAGES”

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“VENETIAN LANGUAGES”

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“ITALO-ROMANCE LANGUAGES”

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“SARDINIAN LANGUAGES”

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“ROMANIAN LANGUAGES”

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“DALMATION LANGUAGES”
*extinct
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*the romance languages are the ‘modern languages’ that evolved from ‘spoken latin’ between the ‘500s’ + ‘800s’ and that thus form a branch of the ‘italic languages’ within the ‘indo-european’ language family*

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(today, around ‘800 million people’ are ‘native speakers’ worldwide)
(mainly in ‘europe’ and ‘the americas’, but also elsewhere)

(additionally, the major ‘romance languages’ have many ‘non-native speakers’ and enjoy widespread use as ‘lingua francas’)

(this is especially the case for ‘french’, which is in widespread use throughout ‘central africa’ + ‘west africa’, ‘madagascar’, ‘mauritius’, and the ‘maghreb region’)

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(the 5 most widely spoken ‘romance languages’ by ‘number of native speakers’ are…)

“spanish”
(410 million)

“portuguese”
(216 million)

“french”
(75 million)

“italian”
(60 million)

“romanian”
(25 million)

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(because of the difficulty of imposing ‘boundaries’ on a ‘continuum’, various counts of the ‘romance languages’ are given; ‘dalby’ lists 23 based on ‘mutual intelligibility’…)

*IBERO-ROMANCE LANGUAGES*

examples –>

‘portuguese’ + ‘galician’
‘mirandese’ + ‘asturian-leonese’
‘spanish’
‘aragonese’

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*OCCITANO-ROMANCE LANGUAGES*

examples –>

‘catalan’
‘occitan’

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*GALLO-ROMANCE LANGUAGES*

examples –>

‘langues d’oïl’ (including ‘french’)
‘franco-provençal’

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*RHAETO-ROMANCE LANGUAGES*

examples –>

‘romansh’
‘ladin’
‘friulian’

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*GALLO-ITALIC LANGUAGES*

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*VENETIAN LANGUAGES*

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*ITALO-ROMANCE LANGUAGES*

examples —>

‘corsican’
‘italian’
‘neapolitan’
‘sicilian’

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*SARDINIAN LANGUAGES*

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“DALMATION LANGUAGES”
*extinct*

*examples* —>

‘romanian’
‘daco-romanian’
‘istro-romanian’
‘aromanian’
‘megleno-romanian’

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(in several of these cases, more than 1 ‘variety’ has been ‘standardized’, so it is considered a ‘distinct language’ in the ‘popular conception’)

(this is true, for example, with…)

(‘asturian’ / ‘leonese’)

(‘neapolitan’ / ‘sicilian’)

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(who were the last ‘tribe’ of ‘homo sapiens’ to live without developing a spoken language?)

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*WIKI-LINK*

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👈👈👈☜*“ITALIC LANGUAGES”* ☞ 👉👉👉

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