Romance languages

Also known as Latin languages, Neo-Latin languages

group of Indo-European languages, direct descendants of Vulgar Latin

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Romance languages are a group of languages that descended directly from Vulgar Latin, the everyday form of Latin spoken by common people in the Roman Empire. They matter because they are spoken by hundreds of millions of people today and include major languages like Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.

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Commons category: Romance languages
short name: Romanisch
Stack Exchange tag: linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/romance-languages
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The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages or Latinic languages, are the languages that directly descended from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family.