ROMANCE: PORTUGUESE, SPANISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, & ROMANIAN

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The Romance languages, less commonly referred to as Latin languages or Neo-Latin languages, are the various modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the 3rd and 8th centuries. They are a subgroup of the Italic languages in the Indo-European language family. The six most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are Spanish (489 million), Portuguese (283 million), French (77 million), Italian (67 million), Romanian (24 million), and Catalan (14.5 million). Italian is the closest national language to Latin, followed by Spanish, Romanian, and Portuguese. The most divergent is French, which was heavily influenced by Germanic languages. Taking into account all the Romance languages, including national and regional languages, Sardinian and Italian are together the least differentiated from Latin, and Occitan is closer to Latin than French.[3][4][5] However, all Romance languages are closer to each other than to classical Latin.

There are more than 900 million native speakers of Romance languages found worldwide, mainly in the Americas, Europe, and parts of Africa. The major Romance languages also have many non-native speakers and are in widespread use as lingua franca. This is especially true of French, which is in widespread use throughout Central and West Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Comoros, Djibouti, Lebanon, and the western Maghreb.

Because it is difficult to assign rigid categories to phenomena such as languages, which exist on a continuum, estimates of the number of modern Romance languages vary. For example, Dalby lists 23, based on the criterion of mutual intelligibility. The following includes those and additional current, living languages, and one extinct language, Dalmatian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

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