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...ommunication in western Europe for many centuries; the ancestor of today's Romance languages, such as French and Spanish.

[[Romance languages]] subfamily; [[Friulian language|Friulian]], [[Ladin language|Ladin]], and

...also called '''Padanian''' or rarely ''Cisalpine'', is a variety of the [[Romance languages]] spoken approximately in Northern [[Italy]] and in adjacent territories su All specialists of the Romance languages agree on the existence of "Northern Italian" but they disagree on its accur

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...ntury, being completely replaced by Arabic, before the arrival of northern Romance languages.<ref>See article [http://www.enciclopedia.cat/fitxa_v2.jsp?NDCHEC=0124957 "

==Current use in Romance languages== The cedilla appeared first in the [[Romance languages]], below the letter '''[[c]]''': '''[[ç]]'''. In those tongues, '''c''' is

...''centum'' [ˈkentum] “hundred” > Sardinian ''chentu'' [ˈkentu]. All other Romance languages have adopted palatalized or fricative pronunciations in these cases (as in

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...anguage|Vulgar Latin]], the [[language]] of the [[Ancient Romans]]. Today, Romance languages are spoken all over the world, those with the most speakers being [[Spanish ...ris: Honoré Champion</ref>, Rebecca Posner<ref>POSNER Rebecca (1996) ''The Romance languages'', coll. Cambridge language surveys, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press<

...ch would eventually transform them into Latin's successor languages: the [[Romance languages]]. In the western half of the former Empire, Latin persisted as the languag ...efore provide the lay person with clues as to the meanings of terms in the Romance languages. Latin terminology is still used in the [[science]]s, particularly in [[med

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...uropean languages include the [[West Germanic]], [[North Germanic]], and [[Romance languages]], as well as [[Latin]], [[Greek]] and [[Sanskrit]].

'''Jèrriais''' is one of the [[Romance languages]], related to the [[Norman language]], and the languages of [[Guernesiais]] ...ority of the Dukes and other nobles was strong, a constellation of related Romance languages were spoken across the country. [[langue d'òc]], like [[Catalan]], were s

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==Romance languages== ...ecent centuries, the intermediate dialects which existed between the major Romance languages have been moving toward [[language death|extinction]], partly because of th

...-European languages|Indo-European]] language family, especially from the [[Romance languages]] and some other branches such as the [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] and [

...n-Saintongeais, Parlange'' or occasionally ''Aguiainais, Aguiain'') is a [[Romance languages|Romance]] linguistic variety spoken in midwest [[France]], in a territory c But specialists of the Romance languages disagree on whether Poetevin-Séntunjhaes is a dialect of the French langua

...orically documented language but not identical with it. For example, the [[Romance languages]] are all descended from [[Vulgar Latin]], the colloquial spoken language o

...ome aspects, it could seem slightly original compared with the rest of the Romance languages since it does not have any territorial contiguity with them. This geographi ..., inherited from [[Latin language|Latin]] and lost or almost lost in other Romance languages. For instance:

...1305), the famous essay by Italian writer [[Dante Alighieri]], where three Romance languages were identified by the way of saying “yes”: ''Lingua di Sì'' (“langu

...rk, the comma below '''ș''' and '''ț''' occurs mainly in [[Romanian]] (a [[Romance languages|Romance language]]):

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...prose and poetry are universal to European languages, notably Germanic and Romance languages. The extent to which it applies to predominantly spoken languages, even tho

'''Romansh''' (in its own language: ''rumantsch'') is a [[Romance languages|Romance language]] spoken in the [[Graubünden]] [[canton]] of eastern [[Sw ...ith three main dialects: "We have a separate and independent branch of the Romance languages, granting even that its speakers have no common written language or even an

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...ely ''langue d'oïl'' [lɑ̃gdɔil]/[lɑ̃gdɔjl]), is the third-largest of the [[Romance languages]] in terms of number of native speakers, after [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ...h sounds and spellings are distinctly different from those of neighbouring Romance languages and why Spanish and Italian sound more similar to one another than French

...Mediterranean and Western Europe and over time these developed into the [[Romance languages]] which are from east to west: [[Romanian language|Romanian]], [[Italian la ####Deriving from Latin: the '''[[Romance languages]]''' (Southern, Western and Central Europe), including [[Galician-Portugues

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...| thumb | 400px | left | This animated map shows the southward growth of [[Romance languages]], like the Castilian, as Christian rule displaced muslim rule.]] ...language (genera)|language]]: ''español'', ''castellano'') is one of the [[Romance languages]]. It began as a variety of [[Latin language|Latin]] in what is now norther

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...otes that "the sense ‘slack, not closely fitting’, which exists in all the Romance languages (though not recorded very early in any of them) may possibly be of etymolog

'''Occitan''' is a [[Romance languages|Romance language]] spoken in a territory called [[Occitania]], which compri Among the [[Romance languages]], the closest relative of Occitan is [[Catalan language|Catalan]]. Accordi

:*<big>'''«'''...'''»'''</big> and <big>'''“'''...'''”'''</big> as in many [[Romance languages]],

...guage|German]], and [[French language|French]], as well as all the other [[Romance languages]], all the other [[Germanic languages]], some [[Slavic languages]], [[Turki

...ent marks the [[vowel height|height]] of some stressed vowels in various [[Romance languages]].

...ias's (Re)vision of Estrada Cabrera's Guatemala, 1898&ndash;1920 | journal=Romance Languages Annual | issue=4 | date=1992 | url=http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/RLA-Archive/1

| fam7 = [[Ibero-Romance languages|Ibero-Romance]] '''Portuguese''' (in its own language: ''português'' [purtuˈɣeʃ]) is a [[Romance languages|Romance language]], of the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European family]]

...nks_s ''Semantic primes and universal grammar: empirical evidence from the Romance languages'']. John Benjamin Publishing Company. ISBN 9789027230911.

...nds Antilles]] and [[Aruba]] than Dutch. Moreover, territories where other Romance languages such as [[French language|French]] (e.g., [[Quebec]] in [[Canada]]) or [[Kr ...ories, it eventually came to embody those parts of the Americas that speak Romance languages initially brought by settlers from [[Spain]], [[Portugal]] and, in a minor

...e|Armenian]] and [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]). The Latin-based Romance languages are spoken principally in the southern half of Europe (chiefly in Portugal,

...uninflected form. This is common in [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] and [[Romance languages]], along with other languages in the Balkan Sprachbund, such as [[Albanian]

...to]] and the Creole [[Suriname#Demographics|languages of Suriname]]. Other Romance languages with Jewish forms, spoken historically by Sephardim, include [[Judæo-Arago

...'cavalry''. This formed the basis for the word 'knight' among the European Romance languages: Spanish language|Spanish ''caballero'', French ''chevalier'', Portuguese l