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The Romance languages, also known as the Latin [1] or Neo-Latin [2] languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin. [3] They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are:
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, [24] Occitan, Sardinian, Friulian ...
Romance languages have a number of shared features across all languages: Romance languages are moderately inflecting, i.e. there is a moderately complex system of affixes (primarily suffixes) that are attached to word roots to convey grammatical information such as number, gender, person, tense, etc. Verbs have much more inflection than nouns.
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is a metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics analogous to a family tree , or to phylogenetic trees of taxa used in evolutionary taxonomy .
The Romance language family (simplified). Western Romance languages are one of the two subdivisions of a proposed subdivision of the Romance languages based on the La Spezia–Rimini Line . They include the Ibero-Romance and Gallo-Romance .
This article is a list of language families. ... Family Languages [1] Current speakers [2] Location Proposed parent family Afroasiatic: 381 499,294,669 Africa, Eurasia:
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the languages of the northern Indian subcontinent, the overwhelming majority of Europe, and the Iranian plateau. Some European languages of this family— English , French , Portuguese , Russian , Dutch , and Spanish —have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now ...
Romance languages in Europe. A pan-Romance language or Romance interlanguage [1] [2] is a codified linguistic variety which synthesizes the variation of the Romance languages and is representative of these as a whole.