Romance languages

n. general name for European languages based on the early Italian languages such as Latin (such as Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian)

n. European language based on the early Italian languages such as Latin (such as Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian)

adj. of or pertaining to romance languages

The Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family that comprisies all the languages that descend from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire. They have more than 700 million native speakers worldwide, mainly in the Americas, Europe, and Africa, as well as many smaller regions scattered throughout the world.
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