i have some stupid summer spanish home work and I NEED HELP, o yah also for who ever is answering them could you name some
2007-06-25 04:06:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Romance languages all come from the Roman language - Latin. They evolved from Vulgar (Common) Latin after the fall of the Roman Empire.
The most well known are:
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Romanian.
There are dozens more. Some lesser-known ones are :
Catalan, Galego, Sardinian, Romansch, Provencal, plus many more.
2007-06-25 04:14:58 · answer #1 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Spanish
2) Portuguese
3) French
4) Italian
5) Romanian
They have more than 700 million native speakers worldwide, mainly in the Americas, Europe, and Africa, as well as in many smaller regions scattered through the world. All Romance languages descend from Vulgar Latin, the language of soldiers, settlers and merchants of the Roman Empire, which was somewhat different from the Classical Latin of the Roman literati.
The total native speakers of Romance languages is divided as follows (with their ranking within the languages of the world in brackets):
-Spanish 47% (5th)
-Portuguese 26% (7th)
-French 11% (11th)
-Italian 9% (18th)
-Romanian 4% (34th)
-Catalan 1% (n/a)
-others 2%
I hope this helped you --BL
2007-06-25 11:30:25 · answer #2 · answered by wintennis91 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A romance language is one related to Latin. Examples of romance languages would be: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian and Catalan.
2007-06-25 11:08:49 · answer #3 · answered by firstythirsty 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey. i took spanish last year and i had some difficulty. a lot of people think that romance language is like french or italian or something b/c there is lots of "love" or something in europe. although, romance language is like the basics of a language.for instance latin forms a lot of languages. spanish is the most commonly used romance language or something. wikipedia says it is 47% romance language. (or latin)
2007-06-25 11:14:39 · answer #4 · answered by CurlyQ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"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." --source 1
Off the top of my head, some Romance languages:
Portuguese
Spanish
French
Romanian
Italian
There are a lot more listed in source 2.
2007-06-25 11:08:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
just to clarify, Romanian people do take pride that the language has some roots in latin but it is a mutt language so I don't know if it can be classified as Romance
2007-06-25 15:17:11 · answer #6 · answered by aeseeke 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a romance language is a language that comes from latin roots. french, spanish, portuguese, italian, romainian, and others that are dialects from italy and spain, like catalan and venentian, are romance languages.
2007-06-25 11:14:34 · answer #7 · answered by there_are_noneleft 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A romance language is a language that is rooted in Latin.
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2007-06-25 11:40:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the first answer is correct, but spanish is more than a romantic language, is also and aribic descendant language. a mixture of romantic and aribic influence.
2007-06-25 11:13:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋