how many languages come from latin?

Question

i was just wondering because english, swedish and french come from Latin, but I'm sure there are more languages that come from latin.

Answer 1

A full list will be long, but I will give it a go:

Spanish
Gallego (spoken in Galicia, Northern Portugal)
French
Occitan (spoken in the Languedoc)
Gascon (spoken in Gascony)
Franco-Provencal
Catalan
Portuguese
Romanian
Sursilvan, or Rumantsch (spoken in Switzerland, Canton Ticino)
Ladin (spoken in the Italian Dolomites)
Italian
Sardinian
Sicilian (including Salentino and Southern Calabrese)
Calabrese (Northern)
Lombard (many consider West Lombard - including milanese - and East Lombard - including Bergamasch - to be separate languages)
Emilian-Romagnolo (many consider these two to be separate languages - this group includes Bolognese, Modenese, Parmesan and many others)
Laziale
Abruzzese
Trentino
Veneto
Campanian (including Neapolitan)
Pugliese (not including Salentino)
Piemontese
Ligure (including Genovese)

This is not a full list by any means, but I think I have included the important ones. Please note that Sicilian, and all of the others I have listed which are spoken in Italian territory are *not* dialects of Italian ... Italian itself is a standardised form of the medieval literary Tuscan dialect.

Answer 2

Languages From Latin

Answer 3

This is a tricker question then you might think. Languages are living evolving creations of people and cultures. Latin itself evolved from multiple Indo-European roots. Its alphabet was developed from Etruscan and Greek (each of those themselves derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet); its spoken language certainly had contributions from all the peoples who interacted with Latin speakers, over a very long period of time (millenia, if you include before during and after the Empire).

All the Romance languages by definition derived from spoken "Vulger" latin (rather than written "Classical" formal latin). The number is many more than just Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, Friulian, Sardinian, Valdôtain, Romansh, Galician, Occitan Aranese and Catalan... See the second link for a language tree and note it references "dialects"... Dialects become full languages, given enough development.

Some languages that evolved from latin may have already died (as the population of all Europe suffered trememdous shock due to wars and sickness in earlier eras; sometimes, entire cultures were lost).

So - any numeric answer is an estimate, and is based on such decisions as "this language has ENOUGH influence from all branches feeding into and out of Vulger latin to count"...

Answer 4

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how many languages come from latin?
i was just wondering because english, swedish and french come from Latin, but I'm sure there are more languages that come from latin.

Answer 5

The Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family, comprising all the languages that descend from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire. These are(main ones):
Catalan,Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian.
Among other notable languages and dialects are : Occitan (occitan), Rhaeto-Romance (romontsch), Sardinian (sardu), Corsican (corsu), Galician (galego), Aruminian, Asturian, Auvernhat (Occitan), Campidanese (Sardinian), Extremadurian (Spanish), Friulan (Rhaeto-Romance), Gascon (Occitan), Gallurese (Italian), Ladin (Rhaeto-Romance), Lemosin (Occitan), Logudorese (Sardinian), Macedo-Romanian (Romanian), Nuorese (Sardinian), Provençal (Occitan), Sassari (Italian), Sicilian (Italian), Surselvan (Rhaeto-Romance), Valencian (Catalan), Vallader (Rhaeto-Romance)
Swedish and English are Germanic languages, not coming from Latin.

Answer 6

Lots of them.

Spanish
Portuguese
Catalonian
Aragonese
Italian
Sicilian
French
Romanian
Romansh

Those are the only ones I can think of.

Answer 7

Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Romanian, and Romansh.
Who told you that english and Swedish come from Latin , bubbles ?
The Romans never set foot on Sweden

Answer 8

Languages that come from Latin are called Romance languages, from the word for Romans, the people who originally spoke Latin. They are: French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian. Additionally, hundreds of words for concepts (primarily those ending in -tion in English) come directly from French via Latin. The study of linguistics is fascinating because you can see how language changed and developed as people moved farther and farther away from their Latin roots. English, by the way is not a Romance language, but was strongly influenced by French because of the geographical proximity of England and France.

Answer 9

oh, the most important languages which come from latin are:romanian (my language), portuguese, spanish, italian and french. i thought engish is a germanic language and it doesn`t come from Latin, but if u say it does, ok
the Latin languages are mostly spoken in the teritories which were owned or colonised by the roman empire, in the past

Answer 10

there are 6.

Spanish = Spoken in Spain and south america, and also in other islands as the canary islands.

Catalan= Spoken in the notrh-east of Spain, Andorra, Valencia , Mallorca and Menorca.

Portuguese= Spoken in Portugal, Brazil and other islands as the açores.

French= Spoken in France, Canada, and more african countries.

Italian=Spoken in Italy and italian islands.

Romanian= Spoken in Romania