Why is Spanish language so similar to the Italian ?

Question

Some words are really the same !

Answer 1

Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian
are called Romance Languages
meaning they all came from Latin
if you compare words with the same meaning from those five languages and compare it with the word with the same meaning from Latin, you'll see the similarity

The following sentences mean
"She always closes the window before having dinner."

Ea închide întodeauna fereastra înainte de a cina. (Romanian)
Ella (or lei) chiude sempre la finestra prima di cenare. (Italian)
Elle ferme toujours la fenêtre avant de dîner. (French)
Ella siempre cierra la ventana antes de cenar. (Spanish)
Ela fecha sempre a janela antes de cear. (Portuguese)

and in Latin
Ea semper fenestram claudit antequam cenet. (Latin)

Answer 2

Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French and Romanian are all descended from Latin. That's why they are similar.

Just like the way that German, Dutch and the Scandinavian languages are all similar. They are just the same family of languages.

English, just out of interest, is halfway between the two families. Anglo-Saxon and Norse were the predominant languages until 1066 when the French speaking Normans invaded. They brought over a lot of French words, which is why, for example, in English we say "it's possible" and in French we say "C'est possible". Most English words are either Teutonic or pre-Teutonic in origin, however. The oldest words are thought to be "mother" "father" "brother" and "sister". These words seem to be remnants of a long lost Indo-European language (romance and Germanic languages are both part of the larger Indo-European linguistic group) which existed many, many thousands of years ago.

Answer 3

Are you familiar with the term Romance Languages? They originated in the Roman empire which the language of the people was Latin (giving birth to the term Romance Languages). As the Romans moved further north in Europe the language (Latin) adopted the dialects of the other languages of the Barbarians. Many of the words are the same and the grammar, etc. but they each had their cultural nuances.

Answer 4

Dikk, both Spanish and Italian come from Latin, together with Rumanian, Portuguese, French. All of these countries were conquered by the Roman Empire, and their languages come from Latin

Answer 5

because Spanish and Italian are both from Latin

If you learn Latin (Like me) you notice, that Spanish and Italian are very similar to Latin

Italian is the "Broad dialect" and Spanish is the "well spoken" Latin

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Allu

Answer 6

dear dikk;
this is because the spanish ,italian,portuguese and french are the Romance languages they are extracted from the latin language,they have an easy grammar and you can learn them fast,they are different than the germanic languages(English and german and dutch) if you want more lang's information just contact me
regards

Answer 7

Because they belong to Roman language group

Answer 8

they are both Latin based languages and yes they are similar for some words.

Answer 9

Lol, not really. Spanish is very similar to French, though.

Answer 10

Because they both take part of the Roman Linguistic Group (so do French,Portugueese,Romanian)