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    What are the "Romance" languages?

    Question #69573. Asked by starNumberA399. (Aug 10 06 8:21 PM)


    smartie806

    		Languages descended from Latin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

    Aug 10 06, 8:37 PM
    Gnomon

    		Romance languages are those descended from Latin (Roman). The main ones are Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian, but there are many others which are spoken by small numbers of people, such as Catalan, Occitane, Romansh, Ladino etc.

    Aug 11 06, 1:01 AM
    mamasnuggs

    		Spanish and Portuguese for sure.

    Aug 11 06, 1:55 AM
    Baloo55th

    		Add Aromunian, Friulian, Judezmo, Galician, and Sardinian to Gnomon's list and you have the current ones. Also descended from French, Spanish and Portuguese are Creoles (colonial descendants of the occupying language). Polari is another descendant of the Romance group as well. Dalmatian and Mozarabic are now extinct. Sicilian is regarded by some as a language, but this is disputed.

    Aug 11 06, 4:27 AM

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