Romance languages

Romance languages ​​(sometimes called Romance languages, Latin, or Latin languages ​​Romance languages) is a branch of the family of Indo-European languages, specifically in the sub-family of languages ​​which includes italics all languages descend from Vulgar Latin, the language of ancient Rome.

There are over 800 million native speakers worldwide, mainly in the Americas and Europe as well as many smaller regions scattered throughout the world. Due to the extreme difficulty and different methods to distinguish between language, variety, and dialect, it is impossible to count the number of Romance languages ​​that already exist, but just barely, in arbitrary can put the total around 25.

In fact, the number is much higher, and many others in the past. Today, you are the most widely spoken Romance languages ​​are standardized Spanish in Spain (about € 500 million), Portugal (about 270 million euro), France (about 250 million euro), Italy (70 million), Romania (about 30 million euro), and Catalan (14 million euro). Among many other Romance languages ​​in Corsica, Emilia-Romagna, Galician, Gascon, Lombard, Mirandese, Occitan, Piedmontese, Aromanian, Sardinia, Sicily, Venice, Asturias, Naples, and Friulian.

Romance languages ​​are a continuation of Vulgar Latin, the popular sociolect Latin spoken by soldiers, settlers and merchants of the Roman Empire, in contrast to the classical form of the language spoken by the Roman upper classes, the way the language was written in general. Between 350 BC and 150 AD, the expansion of the Empire, with its administrative and educational policies in Latin the dominant native language in continental Western Europe. America also had a strong influence in southeastern Britain, the Roman province of Africa, the Balkans and the northern line Jireček.

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