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European extent of Romance languages in the 20th century Proportion of speakers in the top 5 Romance languages, as of 2024 The Romance language most widely spoken natively today is Spanish , followed by Portuguese , French , Italian and Romanian , which together cover a vast territory in Europe and beyond, and work as official and national ...
Today the four most widely spoken standardized Western Romance languages are Spanish (c. 486 million native speakers, around 125 million second-language speakers), Portuguese (c. 220 million native, another 45 million or so second-language speakers, mainly in Lusophone Africa), French (c. 80 million native speakers, another 70 million or so ...
Some Romance languages form plurals by adding /s/ (derived from the plural of the Latin accusative case), while others form the plural by changing the final vowel (by influence of Latin nominative plural endings, such as /i/) from some masculine nouns. Plural in /s/: Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, Catalan, [25] Occitan, Sardinian, Friulian ...
The Eastern Romance languages [1] are a group of Romance languages. The group, also called the Balkan Romance or Daco-Romance languages, [1] comprises the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian), the Aromanian language and two other related minor languages, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian. [2] [3] [4]
language portal; This category and its subcategories are arranged according to Romance languages tree at Ethnologue. Each specific language should go under its own language group, unless it is too hard to establish that group.
European extent of Romance languages in the 20th century Eastern and Western Romance areas split by the La Spezia–Rimini Line; Southern Romance is represented by Sardinian as an outlier. Romance languages in the World. Countries and sub-national entities where one or more Romance languages are spoken.
A Romance language that replaced native Celtic languages in Great Britain instead of the Germanic Anglo-Saxon. A scenario where British Latin survived and developed further into a modern language. Wenedyk (Venedic) 2002 Jan van Steenbergen: Polish as a Romance language. A language with Polish phonetics and orthography but with Romance instead ...
Neolatino Romance (or simply 'Neolatino') [37] [38] is a naturalistic pan-Romance zonal auxiliary language, proposed as a standard language for Romance as a whole, to ease communication amongst or with speakers of Romance languages, complementing (not substituting) the standards that exist locally (Portuguese, Spanish, etc.).