Definitions

1. Romance languages are spoken more or less in south-western Europe, as well as Romania and Moldova which are situated in Eastern Europe.
2. Romance languages are an Italic subfamily of the Indo-European language family.
3. The Romance languages are derived from Vulgar Latin (or Romance) language, which was an ancient Italic language of the Indo-European family.
4. Romance languages are not derived from Classical Latin but rather from Vulgar Latin.
5. Romance languages are spoken more or less in south-western-Europe, as well as Romania and Moldova which are situated in Eastern Europe.

Latin

1. Latin, spread widely by trade and empire, gradually evolved into the Romance languages.
2. The Romance languages decended from the Vulgar Latin spoken across most of the lands of the Roman Empire.
3. All of the Romance languages are descended from Latin (see Latin language and the table entitled Linguistic Relationships among Romance Languages).
4. Romance languages also have a number of features that are not shared with Classical Latin.
5. First, the comparative method can reconstruct the underlying forms from the attested Romance languages, and note where they differ from classical Latin.

Romance Language

1. The verb system is a simplified version of the systems found in English and the Romance languages.
2. The is the first of two talks on r-type segments in the Romance languages, exemplified primarily by Spanish and Catalan.
3. The grammar of Interlingua is based on that of the Romance languages, but simplified, primarily under the influence of English.

Languages

1. Italian is the closest language to original Latin than any of the other Romance languages.
2. Like most Romance languages, French has two grammatical genders that are used when referring to any noun.
3. There is also the fact that Spanish, being one of the Romance languages, is derived from Latin.
4. Catalan is regarded as a transition language between Iberian Romance and Gallo-Romance languages.
5. Portuguese also has significant similarities with Mirandese, Catalan, Italian, French and with other Romance languages.
6. In fact all Romance languages, including Sardinian and Romanian, are all vastly different from their common ancestor.

Modern Romance

1. See also Loss of the neuter gender in Romance languages.
2. For more on these, please see the article " Eastern Romance languages".
3. The Germanic and Romance languages don't derive from Iranian and Indian.
4. The global spread of colonial Romance languages has given rise to numerous creole languages and pidgins.
5. The Romance languages have clitic forms of the pronouns, which stop just short of being verb inflections: e.g.

Pidgins

1. The global spread of colonial Romance languages has given rise to numerous creoles and pidgins.

Esperanto

1. To equate Romance languages with Esperanto is ridiculous too.

Clitics

1. As in other Romance languages, objective pronouns are clitics, which must come next to a verb, and are pronounced together with it as a unit.

Verbs

1. It must be noted that, unlike other Germanic languages or the Romance languages, English nouns do not take gender and verbs can take the "ing" ending.
2. As in all Romance languages, Romanian verbs are highly inflected for person, number, tense, mood, voice.

Future Tense

1. However, the verb morphology of Romanian has shown the same move towards a compound perfect and future tense as the other Romance languages.
2. Many Romance languages now have a verbal construction analogous to the present perfect tense of English.

Portuguese

1. The Romance languages, such as Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and Romanian, have more overt inflection than English, especially in verb conjugation.
2. Except for the Italian and Romanian "heteroclitic" nouns, other major Romance languages have no trace of neuter nouns, but all have neuter pronouns.
3. Romance languages: French is not mutually intelligible with Italian, Spanish, Portuguese or Romanian.
4. As in the Romance languages, reflexive constructions are often used where English would employ an intransitive verb or the passive voice.

Adjectives

1. It is right-branching, uses prepositions, and usually, though not always, places adjectives after nouns - as most other Romance languages.

Grammatical Gender

1. For example, Modern English, unlike Modern German or Dutch and the Romance languages, lacks grammatical gender and adjectival agreement.

Acute Accent

1. The diphthongization of short stressed vowels is common in Spanish as well as the other Romance languages, but absent in Galician-Portuguese.
2. The modern Romance languages developed from the spoken Latin of various parts of the Roman Empire.
3. The acute accent marks the height of some stressed vowels in various Romance languages.

Sardinian

1. The definite article is used as a preposition, unlike the Eastern Romance languages (like Romanian) which have it postposed to the noun.
2. Latin America is the parts of the Americas where Romance languages derived from Latin are officially or primarily spoken.

Galician

1. The diphthongization of short stressed vowels, common in Spanish as well as other Romance languages, was not followed by Portuguese and Galician: Lat.

Vowels

1. All Romance languages are descended from Vulgar Latin, and many words adapted from Latin are found in other modern languages, including English.
2. Starting about the 5th or 6th centuries, Late Latin contains minor features that are germinal to the development of the Romance languages.
3. These endings may be taken to indicate natural gender according to the custom in Romance languages.

Classical Latin

1. For example, grammatical case in nouns is present in classical Latin but not in the Romance languages, excluding Romanian.

Modern Romance Languages

1. Given metathesis, we can find cognates of "earth" between terra and the modern Romance languages, for instance tierra in Spanish or terra in Portuguese.
2. Italian has double (or long) consonants, like Latin (but unlike most modern Romance languages, e.g., French and Spanish).

Romanian Language

1. Romanian language member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages).
2. Romanian language is the official language of Romania and Republic of Moldova. (Web site)
3. Romance languages, group of languages belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Italic languages).
4. The Romanian language is spoken by more than 30 million people, mainly located in Romania and Moldova.

Grammar

1. See Loss of the neuter gender in Romance languages, Gender in Dutch grammar, and Polish language: Grammar, for further information.
2. French grammar is the grammar of the French language, which is similar to that of the other Romance languages.

Germanic Languages

1. These include Germanic languages (including English), Latinate Romance languages, Slavic languages and several others.
2. A less arguable example of a dialect continuum within the Italo-Western languages are the Romance languages of Italy.

Latin Language

1. The Romance languages are a language family in the Indo-European languages.

Dialects

1. Most of the modern linguists, specialists of Romance languages, consider that Gallurese and Sassarese are dialects of Corsican.
2. This counts as long as one or more control languages actually have this basic root word, which the Romance languages all do.
3. As in all romance languages, occitan has two genders: masculine and feminine.

Sound Changes

1. Similar sound changes are found in other Romance languages, but in Spanish, they were significant.
2. Of the two companion romance languages their is much interface between Catalan and Castilian, and much less with Portuguese and Castilian.

Catalan

1. Aragonese grammar is similar to the grammar of other Iberian Romance languages, such as Spanish and Catalan.
2. Other Romance languages that use the diaeresis in this fashion are French, Catalan, and Brazilian Portuguese.

Interlingua

1. However, Spanish is also closely related to Catalan, Asturian, Galician and several other Romance languages.
2. Interlingua is derived from English and the Romance languages in both grammar and vocabulary.
3. Moreover, all Romance languages except Romanian have discarded the Latin scheme of six different cases for the noun, retaining only one case.
4. In the late eighteenth century, the Romanians adopted the Latin alphabet, primarily because Romanian is a Romance language.

Spoken

1. The Romance languages, Italian, Spanish, French and Romanian, are all descendants of the Vulgar Latin spoken by the Roman legions.
2. Latin Alternative meanings: See Latin (disambiguation) Latin was the official language of the Roman Empire, Latin evolved into the various Romance languages.
3. Many other Romance languages and their local varieties are spoken throughout Europe, and some are recognized as regional languages.

Vulgar Latin

1. A distinctive feature of Portuguese is that it preserved the stressed vowels of Vulgar Latin, which became diphthongs in other Romance languages; cf.

Romance Languages

1. Unlike the Romance languages (such as French, Spanish, and Italian), English has three genders for nouns and pronouns: masculine, feminine, and neuter.

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