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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- Romance languages
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- Romanisch
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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.